Exelon Reports Data Center Pipeline of 33GW

Public US utility Exelon has said it has 33GW worth of data centers interested in connecting to its system. Exelon said that of the 33GW, 17GW is already in line to connect to its system, with a further 16GW set to be studied and added to the formal pipeline later this year. 

"We want to be part of the solution. The supply is not meeting the demand," Exelon CEO Calvin Butler said during the company’s Q2 earnings call.

Butler reported significant activity in the Illinois market, where IBM has developed a supercomputing campus. However, the CEO noted that “we’re also seeing data center activity across our other jurisdictions, Pennsylvania, Maryland. So this is not just one state. You just see Illinois being in the top five of what we’re doing.”