[trollbridge]

Sure you can. The datacentre builders just don't want the (fairly modest) extra expense to do so properly. Obviously some preparatory work is required before dumping a lot of extra capacity into the grid.

My state allowed the power utilities to charge a modest fee ($10,000 to $100,000, depending on project size) before a yet-to-be-built data centre could demand a large amount of electricity. The amount of planned data centres went down by an order of magnitude. The truth is that most of the data centre builders (not all) do not want to be responsible citizens and are simply extracting value and wealth from other people, including from the power utilities and grid operators.

[ch4s3]

There's a years long queue for every US grid.

[trollbridge]

The queue is no longer a year long here once they started charging those study fees.

[ch4s3]

In YOUR state. This is because projects are hopping around and looking for short lines with other considerations. However that doesn't change the fact that its too hard to bring generation onto the grind in the US.