Running a mining facility? That is a powered site with a live load. What the conversion involves

Utilities and local government.

Nothing gets built without them. Their questions get answered early and in writing, rather than at a hearing.

The evidence

Recent conversions.

Powered sites held by companies that had never run a data center are being converted into AI capacity right now, on grid connections that already existed. We track those conversions site by site in The Buildout Registry.

1,884 MW
already in place at a single retired coal site now being rebuilt as an AI campus, with no new line built.
$10B+
committed to turn that one powered shell into a live, gas-powered AI data-center campus.
480 MW
of energized interconnection at a shut aluminum smelter, acquired for the connection it left behind.

Recent, publicly reported conversions of powered sites into AI compute.

The full argument, with sources: the 2026 thesis

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