About The Load Report

The Southeast is in the middle of the largest industrial land-use shift in a generation. Hyperscale data centers — projects measured in billions of dollars and gigawatts of electricity — are being proposed, fought over, approved, and paused across Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The decisions that shape them happen in places that are easy to miss: county commission votes, zoning board agendas, utility rate cases, public service commission dockets.

The reporting on all of this exists — but it is scattered across dozens of local newsrooms, trade publications, and public notices. The Load Report gathers it in one place: organized by state, by project, and by issue, with upcoming government actions collected on a single calendar you can subscribe to.

We are an aggregator, and deliberately so. Headlines on this site are the original outlets’ own words, and every story links to the newsroom that reported it. If a story matters to you, read it at the source — the local reporters covering these fights are the reason this site can exist.

How stories are selected, summarized, and tagged — and what our “confirmed” and “unconfirmed” labels mean — is documented in detail on the Methodology page.