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Checked claims with the verdict “Partially supported”

Independent evidence supports part of the claim; the rest is unknown or unsupported. The full statement is not thereby false. 9 checked claims so far carry this verdict; that is an outcome of what we checked, not a scoreboard. How this verdict is defined →

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Public statement checked

Customers on LG&E and KU's Extremely High Load Factor rate must sign a 15-year contract, commit to paying for at least 80% of the power they reserve, and provide deposits equal to between 12 and 24 months of their service.

Verdict on the wording above: Partially supported

Said by LG&E and KU · Kentucky

Review scope: Tariff, order and company page read 1 November 2026

Partially supported because only Louisville Gas and Electric's Rate EHLF tariff was checked; Kentucky Utilities' parallel tariff was not read.

Evidence and limits

Evidence limitation: Kentucky Utilities' parallel EHLF tariff was not read. Which customers have signed EHLF agreements and on what terms; agreements are to be filed with the Commission.

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Checked 1 November 2026

Public statement checked

Under Minn. Stat. §§ 216B.1622 and 216B.1623 (2025), utilities cannot pass the costs of serving a data center to other ratepayers, and data centers are required to pay for all necessary electrical system upgrades and buildouts.

Verdict on the wording above: Partially supported

Said by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission · Minnesota

Review scope: Statute and PUC page read 1 November 2026

Borne out for new very large customers; the PUC's sentence omits the law's exemptions and its class definition, due by 15 December 2026 (issuance not verified).

Evidence and limits

Evidence limitation: The Commission's definition of the very large customer class, which existing data center agreements fall under the subdivision 3 exemption, any approved data center tariff or agreement, and whether specific upgrade costs have been charged to a data center.

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Checked 1 November 2026

Public statement checked

Senate Bill 4 (2025) required the Missouri Public Service Commission to adopt rates for large load customers, including data centers, that reflect those customers' share of their costs and prevent other customers from being charged unjust or unreasonable costs arising from service to large load customers.

Verdict on the wording above: Partially supported

Said by the Missouri Public Service Commission · Missouri

Review scope: PSC page and bill text read 1 November 2026

Evidence and limits

Evidence limitation: The text of the Commission's orders approving the Ameren Missouri and Evergy large load tariffs, including the 12-year minimum term and collateral terms the PSC describes; those orders could not be read.

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Checked 1 November 2026

Public statement checked

The Governor's Energy Policy Task Force found electricity rates could rise as much as 70% over 15 years, with data centers' large energy loads a key factor: about 30% of new energy projects but 80% of projected future demand.

Verdict on the wording above: Partially supported

Said by Office of the Governor of North Carolina · North Carolina

Review scope: Release and interim report read 1 November 2026

Evidence and limits

Evidence limitation: The Energy Futures Group report behind the release's $50 billion figure, and the Task Force's next report, due 15 February 2027; the Task Force's work continues through December 2028.

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Checked 1 November 2026

Public statement checked

Air Permit clears the way for full construction of 4.4-GW natural gas-powered energy and data center campus, with initial power production targeted for 2027.

Verdict on the wording above: Partially supported

Said by Homer City Generation · Pennsylvania

Review scope: Developer release and DEP page read 1 November 2026

Evidence and limits

Evidence limitation: The text of Plan Approval 32-00457A (number and rating of turbines, permitted capacity), DEP's comment response on data center scope, whether construction has begun, whether power production will start in 2027, and any data center tenant. The plan approval documents could not be read.

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Checked 1 November 2026

Public statement checked

xAI was connected to a newly constructed electric substation (#63) from which it is now receiving 150MW of grid power from MLGW and TVA.

Verdict on the wording above: Partially supported

Said by Greater Memphis Chamber · Tennessee

Review scope: Chamber release and MLGW update read 1 November 2026

Evidence and limits

Evidence limitation: Metered load at the site, whether the second 150 MW has since been approved and energized, and the substation numbering, which MLGW's update does not give.

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Checked 1 November 2026

Public statement checked

The FY 2027 adopted budget projects data center revenue at $1.3 billion, representing 40% of the total budget.

Verdict on the wording above: Partially supported

Said by Loudoun County · Virginia

Review scope: County pages and adopted budget summaries read 1 November 2026

Partially supported means the 40% figure fits the adopted General Fund; it does not fit the $5.4 billion the county calls its budget, and the $1.3 billion was not independently confirmed.

Evidence and limits

Evidence limitation: The adopted budget's data center revenue lines (the $1.3 billion figure was not found in the adopted documents read) and which base the county meant by 'total budget'.

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Checked 1 November 2026

Question reviewed

Treating Ohio's 85% data-center tariff as proof that residents cannot be affected by data-center-driven power costs.

Verdict on the wording above: Partially supported

Question examined by DataCenterData · Ohio

Evidence and limits

Evidence limitation: Whether generation, transmission, capacity-market, wholesale-market or pre-tariff contracts can affect household bills remains a separate question from this tariff arithmetic. The saved record holds the tariff sheets and the PUCO docket listing, not a PUCO or Ohio Consumers' Counsel analysis of household bill effects and not the text of the 5 August 2026 order or the 30 September 2026 entry on rehearing.

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Checked 3 October 2026

What this covers. 9 checked claims so far with the verdict “Partially supported”. They concern data-center projects in Indiana (1), Kentucky (1), Minnesota (1), Missouri (1), North Carolina (1), Ohio (1), Pennsylvania (1), Tennessee (1) and Virginia (1). A verdict distribution is an outcome of what we happened to check, not a scoreboard: it says nothing about claims we have not checked. Where a state, operator, project or topic shows no checked claim, read it as “not yet checked by DataCenterData”.

What a verdict means. A verdict applies only to the wording shown and the evidence linked on the check date. Where a separate question appears beside a statement checked, the verdict is about that statement, and the question has its own answer. “Unknown” means the reviewed evidence did not establish the point; it never means zero or false.

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