WHEN THE DATA CENTER COMES.

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• AS IT TURNS OUTISSUE 01 THE DATA CENTER BOOM
• AS IT TURNS OUT — ISSUE 01 (REVISION 01)CONTENTS Editor's Letter
• EDITOR'S LETTEREditor's Letter A boom is reshaping land, power and local economies faster than regulation can track.
• DATA & DEMANDTHE FORECAST GAP Illustrative estimates charting the widening distance between projected data center electricity demand and utility grid capacity through 2030.
• Page 5A residential street backs up to data center campuses in eastern Loudoun County, where housing and server farms now sit side by side. DATA CENTER ALLEY
• INFRASTRUCTUREInside the Buildout How a hyperscale data center campus actually gets built — from site selection through permitting, power interconnection, water cooling infrastructure, and construction execution. The physical anatomy of the buildout that reshapes regional land use and grid demand.
• Page 7The stated purpose is to help assign certain costs to the customers whose needs cause them. [L07/LE07] That is evidence of a regulatory mechanism. It is not evidence that a particular residential bill has already gone up, gone down, or been fully insulated from every effect of new demand.
• POLICY & POWERWho Pays for the Grid As data centers multiply, utilities and consumer advocates are at odds over who should cover the cost of the transmission lines and substations needed to serve them.
• THE STATUS WORDS THAT CHANGE THE STORYREQUESTED UNDER REVIEW
• ACCOUNTABILITYThe Accountability Tool Five questions residents, journalists and local officials can put to data center developers and utilities before the next approval vote.
• ON THE RECORDInfrastructure decisions made quietly today will shape electricity costs and land use for a generation. AS IT TURNS OUT — ISSUE 01
• AS IT TURNS OUTAs It Turns Out is a quarterly investigation into the systems that quietly shape modern life — the land, power, and policy decisions made far from public view but close to every bill we pay. Next issue: beneath the servers. We turn to the water powering the boom, tracing how hyperscale cooling systems are reshaping regional water supplies, utility contracts, and the communities that depend on both.