The Alaska AI Docket

2026-08-27 · Checked against the posted opportunity. The AI3 Action Institute, HHS-2026-ACF-ANA-NAI-0035, closes to applications today, August 27th, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern, which is 7:59 p.m. in Anchorage. It is still one award with a ceiling of $3,500,000. After tonight the national institute is decided and no Alaska-specific lane replaces it.

2026-08-26 · Checked and unchanged against the district's own agendas. AR 5131.9 Academic Honesty is still where the Policy Review Committee left it on August 3rd, and the same evening's business meeting carried BP 5131.9 on first reading and AR 6161.4 Acceptable Use and Internet Safety on first reading and action. No later meeting is posted and no vote is recorded. Students have been back since August 19th, so the rules are being applied before they are finished. The next regular board meeting is September 14th.

2026-08-26 · Checked and unchanged. No decision on the roughly $120 million LM6000 purchase has surfaced in public reporting since the special board meeting of August 13th, and KUAC's energy coverage still carries nothing on Golden Valley Electric Association later than the May 28th fuel charge story. The board's own site refuses an automated read, so the cooperative's decision, when it comes, will most likely be reported before it is posted.

2026-08-26 · The thirty days ran. Enstar filed its 31 page petition for reconsideration on July 23rd, and Alaska Public Media's account of the rule is that the commission has thirty days to respond and that inaction is an automatic denial. Thirty days fell on August 22nd, which has now passed with no order reported anywhere this entry can reach. The Regulatory Commission of Alaska's own site refuses an automated read, so the absence of a published order is not proof that none exists, and this entry says only what can be checked. The July 8th order denying an advance determination of decisional prudence for the $240 million Kenai Loop project is still the operative decision, and Enstar has said the project is suspended without it.

2026-08-26 · Re-checked against the White House page, which now reads more than 300 organizations in total and prints 282 cooperatives, 176 utilities, 69 data center developers and a set of AI companies. Cordova Electric Cooperative, recorded here on July 26th, is still the only Alaska signature this entry has found, and no Railbelt utility has joined it. Chugach Electric, Golden Valley Electric, Matanuska Electric and Homer Electric are the four that would carry a large Railbelt data center load, and none of them appears.

2026-08-26 · It ended. The third special session ran out at midnight on Tuesday, August 25th, 2026 and lawmakers never took up HB 4001 in committee. Both chambers cancelled the pro forma sessions scheduled for that morning and the Capitol stayed empty. Governor Dunleavy said legislative leadership, particularly in the state Senate, had one job, to advance a clean Alaska LNG bill or load it down with an S corporation tax that killed it, and that they chose the latter. The three consecutive special sessions cost about $750,000, about $434,000 and about $76,000, more than $1 million together. A tax break for the project now waits on a new governor and a new Legislature after the November election, which puts it in 2027 at the earliest.

2026-08-19 · Checked and unchanged. AO 2026-27 stands as adopted on March 27th, 2026 by a 10 to 2 vote, amending Title 21 to create a data center land use category, subject those facilities to conditional use review and use-specific performance standards, and require utility statements on system capacity before a project proceeds. It remains the only enacted local framework of its kind in Alaska. The ordinance also directs further regulatory work on energy-intensive uses, so the framework is expected to keep developing.

2026-08-06 · Added as a closed item, because a reader asked for its approval timeline and there is none. The cooperative's own project record is headed that the micro modular nuclear reactor project was tabled indefinitely, dated August 9th, 2023, and the completed pre feasibility study is posted publicly beside it. The study partner, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, filed for Chapter 11 on October 29th, 2024, and its micro modular reactor business was sold to another company in December 2024. Recording it here rather than leaving it out, because what a utility considered and shelved is part of the record, and a reader looking for this timeline deserves to find the answer rather than nothing.