Last mentioned: Mar 18, 2026
Legislative Vote
Expected window for the bill to move to a full floor vote in the Illinois House.
Committee Deliberation
Reports indicate growing bipartisan support for the bill despite it remaining in committee for refinement.
POWER Act Introduction
Initial draft of the POWER Act is introduced to address rising resource concerns.
Incentive Launch
Illinois passes a major tax incentive package to attract data center investment.
Legislative momentum is building in Illinois for the POWER Act, a bill designed to impose stricter environmental and transparency requirements on data centers. While currently held in committee, the proposal reflects a growing national trend of re-evaluating the massive energy and water demands of AI-driven infrastructure.
This page surfaces every story mentioning PJM Interconnection across our legal coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running legal beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where PJM Interconnection was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |