The Daily Mine — Friday, February 20, 2026

SHADOW GRID: Silicon Valley building private power plants — walled off from the utility system...
Washington Post

ILLINOIS WAR: New bill would ban cost-shifting, force data centers to bring their own power...
WSIU / Illinois Public Media

FERC CLEARS: Blackstone's $11.5B TXNM Energy acquisition approved...
PR Newswire / Reuters

OHIO: Proposed data center could be one of state's biggest power guzzlers...
Springfield News-Sun

8,000 ACRES: West Texas off-grid data center would consume more power than Chicago...
The Independent

TEXAS SUPERSITES: 2GW monster campus eyes Uhland — could reshape state's grid...
Post Register

STATES CRACK DOWN: New laws force data centers to pay full grid connection costs...
MultiState

5-YEAR WAIT: Data centers can't get grid connections — storage boom follows...
Tech News Vision / Redwood Materials

BLACKSTONE WINS: FERC says $11.5B TXNM deal 'consistent with public interest'...
FERC / PR Newswire

ILLINOIS POWER ACT: 'Bring your own clean capacity' mandate could reshape market...
WSIU

SUPERCYCLE: Comfort Systems surges on data center 'industrial supercycle' profits...
Financial Content

→ New report: 1,135 existing + 491 upcoming US colocation data centers tracked

→ Redwood Materials pivots to data center energy storage as grid wait times hit 5+ years

→ State legislatures in 2026: Energy, tax, and demand-response mandates for data centers