The Alaska AI Docket

Every AI infrastructure decision in Alaska, tracked daily. Who decides, when it lands, and whether the public gets a say. Sources on every item.

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The search writes from the published record and is checked against it line by line. If an answer missed something or read oddly, that is worth knowing.
George M Sullivan Generation Plant 2, 309.3 MW, natural gasBeluga, 300.4 MW, natural gasSouthcentral Power Project, 169.7 MW, natural gasEklutna Generation Station, 165 MW, natural gasNorth Pole, 145 MW, petroleumBradley Lake, 126 MW, hydroelectricSoldotna, 90.5 MW, natural gasSnettisham, 78 MW, hydroelectricHealy, 77.8 MW, coalNikiski Combined Cycle, 75.9 MW, natural gasHank Nikkels Plant 1, 62.4 MW, natural gasBernice Lake, 62.4 MW, natural gasLemon Creek, 57.5 MW, petroleumEklutna Hydro Project, 44.4 MW, hydroelectricBattery Energy Storage System, 40 MW, batteriesInternational Battery Substation (IBSS), 40 MW, batteriesFairbanks, 36.1 MW, petroleumUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks, 35.7 MW, coalTerror Lake Microgrid, 33.6 MW, hydroelectricAuke Bay, 28.3 MW, petroleumChena Power Plant, 25.7 MW, coalJarvis Street, 25.1 MW, petroleumEielson AFB Central Heat & Power Plant, 24.6 MW, coalEva Creek Wind, 24.6 MW, windIndustrial Plant, 23.5 MW, petroleumDelta Power, 23.1 MW, petroleumTNSG North Plant, 23.1 MW, natural gasS W Bailey, 23 MW, petroleumSwan Lake, 22.6 MW, hydroelectricTyee Lake Hydroelectric Facility, 22.6 MW, hydroelectricUtility Plants Section, 22.1 MW, coal 3 decisions at Anchorage1192322 decisions at Soldotna31543 decisions at University of Alaska System, Fairbanks57106891112131416173 decisions at Juneau18202521222426
Transmission at 69 kV and up. The raw state layer is 93 percent local distribution from one utility, so it is cut at the transmission floor.Power plants of 20 MW and up. That is 31 of Alaska's 152 plants but 78 percent of its capacity. Circle area is nameplate megawatts.The Trans Alaska Pipeline System. Gas lines are left out, being 96 percent sub-kilometre distribution with nothing to sort them by.
1Anchorage2Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks North Star Borough3Soldotna4Cook Inlet, west of Nikiski5University of Alaska System, Fairbanks6Bradley Lake, Kenai Peninsula7Fairbanks8Dalton Highway, about 26 mi south of Deadhorse9JBER, Eielson AFB, Clear SFS10Fairbanks11Kenai Loop Pool, Cook Inlet near Kenai12North of Houston, Mat-Su Borough13Cordova, Prince William Sound14Susitna River watershed, west of Skwentna15Soldotna, Kenai Peninsula Borough16near Prudhoe Bay17Beluga to Healy18Juneau19Anchorage20Juneau21Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks22Glennallen, Copper River Basin23Port MacKenzie, Mat-Su Borough24Palmer25Juneau26Petersburg

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The nearest deadlines and votes. A pulsing pin on the map means a public comment window is open right now.

INDIRECT
OCT 14
next OCT 14

Anchorage's surveillance rules for its police crime center

SECOND ASSEMBLY WORK SESSION ON THE ORDINANCE AND ITS ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS
CLOSED
OCT 16
by OCT 16

The Air Force nuclear microreactor at Eielson

RESPONSES TO THE ARMY CORPS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION DUE, 2 P.M. ALASKA TIME
OPEN TO YOU
OCT 20
by OCT 20

Kenai Peninsula Borough writes a weather modification code

PUBLIC HEARING ON ORDINANCE 2026-35, THE POINT AT WHICH THE PUBLIC CAN SPEAK TO IT
OPEN TO YOU
OCT 30
by OCT 30

The FCC asks whether AI should help run the Universal Service Fund

REPLY COMMENTS DUE, WC DOCKET NO. 26-173
OPEN TO YOU
NOV 2
by NOV 2

DeepGreen's underwater data center in Cook Inlet

COMMENTS, MOTIONS TO INTERVENE AND COMPETING APPLICATIONS DUE, 5:00 P.M. EASTERN
INDIRECT
NOV 2
next NOV 2

The University of Alaska's AI policy

PUBLIC TESTIMONY BEFORE THE NOVEMBER REGENTS MEETING, 4 P.M. TO 5 P.M.

The docket

Access reads OPEN when a formal public comment or testimony path exists today, INDIRECT when an elected or member-accountable body decides, CLOSED when the evaluation is private.

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INDIRECT LEGISLATION next OCT 14

Anchorage's surveillance rules for its police crime center

DECIDES · ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY

Three Anchorage Assembly members, Keith McCormick, Sydney Scout and Vice Chair Daniel Volland, introduced an ordinance on August 18th, reported as AO-2026-108, that would write surveillance rules into Anchorage code, among them a case number for every search of surveillance data, deletion of individuals' data after two weeks unless it is evidence in an active investigation, a warrant before footage goes to out of state or federal agencies, limits on automatic license plate readers, and, in co-sponsor Scout's own words, Assembly approval before adding new surveillance capabilities including AI powered tracking or identification technology. It moves alongside a roughly $600,000 contract with ThunderCat Technology for equipment at the Real Time Crime Center, the system the Assembly funded with $11.8 million last year and which is designed to stream up to 750 camera feeds. The center opened in September 2025 with one employee and about 15 cameras.

The Assembly took public testimony on September 15th and then held the ordinance without voting, so the next opportunity is the regular meeting on October 20th. Anyone relying on that date should confirm the item is on the published agenda before showing up, because the municipality's agenda system refuses an automated request and the ordinance text is still not readable anywhere this record can reach.
AUG 4McCormick asks the Assembly to postpone approval of the equipment contract, Scout agrees
AUG 18Ordinance introduced by McCormick, Scout and Volland
AUG 21Assembly work session on the Real Time Crime Center, 10:40 a.m.
SEP 1Public hearing at the Assembly meeting, the point at which the public can speak to it
SEP 3Assembly approves the crime center equipment appropriation 8 to 4
SEP 15Public testimony taken at the regular Assembly meeting, then the ordinance held
OCT 14Second Assembly work session on the ordinance and its alternative versions
OCT 20The Assembly takes the surveillance ordinance up again at its regular meeting
Sources · Anchorage Daily News · Anchorage Daily News opinion, by Assembly member Sydney Scout · Alaska Public Media · Alaska's News Source · Alaska Public Media · Anchorage Daily News, by Bella Biondini · Anchorage Daily News · Alaska's News Source (KTUU) · Anchorage Assembly, Focus on Public Safety page · Anchorage Assembly, AO 2026-108 as introduced · Anchorage Assembly, AO 2026-108(S), the mayor's substitute · Anchorage Assembly, AO 2026-108(S-1), the sponsors' version · Anchorage Daily News
2026-10-11 · Read the three texts on the Assembly's own page today. The August 18th original would have required plate data to be deleted within fourteen days, a warrant to search older data and an end to plate reader authority on January 1st, 2031. The mayor's substitute, AO 2026-108(S), and the sponsors' S-1 version, both dated September 15th, contain no fourteen-day rule and no 2031 end date. Both define surveillance technology by its use of machine learning, artificial intelligence or similar technology. The Assembly's page sets a second work session on Wednesday, October 14th, and returns the ordinance at the regular meeting on October 20th. The private camera rules in all three cover only feeds registered or connected to the city, so none of them reaches a store's own cameras, such as the Flock readers reported at Anchorage Lowe's stores. The Anchorage Daily News report of October 7th still has both proposals going to the Assembly for a vote on October 20th, and no action on the ordinance has been reported since.
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CLOSED PROCUREMENT by OCT 16

The Air Force nuclear microreactor at Eielson

DECIDES · DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WITH DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY ENERGY, AND THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FOR THE LICENSE

The Air Force intends to award Oklo a 30 year fixed price power purchase agreement for a microreactor delivering up to 5 megawatts to Eielson Air Force Base outside Fairbanks. Oklo would build, own and operate it, and the contract is signed only after Oklo obtains a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The comment window on the Air Force's preferred site near Spruce Lake closed on September 30th, and no extension was announced. The Air Force now weighs what it received and has published no date for a decision. The contract itself follows a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
JUN 11 2025Air Force announces a notice of intent to award to Oklo
SEP 20Public comment opens on the Air Force's preferred reactor site near Spruce Lake, which sits near wetlands
SEP 30Comments on the proposed microreactor site due to the Eielson Public Affairs Office
OCT 2Army Corps of Engineers posts a request for information on connecting the reactor to base utilities
OCT 16Responses to the Army Corps request for information due, 2 p.m. Alaska time
Sources · KUAC · U.S. Air Force · Eielson Air Force Base · American Nuclear Society, Nuclear Newswire · Air and Space Forces Magazine · World Nuclear News · U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission · SAM.gov, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District
2026-10-11 · Searched the Federal Register today for Alaska documents published since October 1st and found no Air Force, Eielson or Oklo notice among the 37. No site decision has been published, and responses to the Army Corps request for information remain due October 16th. Checked and unchanged.
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OPEN TO YOU LEGISLATION by OCT 20

Kenai Peninsula Borough writes a weather modification code

DECIDES · KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH ASSEMBLY

Ordinance 2026-35, sponsored by the mayor, would amend borough code to enact a new section, KPB 17.10.165, related to weather modification and geoengineering activities on borough lands. It was introduced on September 3rd, carried a September 15th agenda date in the Policies and Procedures Committee, and is set for public hearing on October 20th. A companion measure, Resolution 2026-046, is on the same agenda. The borough took up the subject after a California company flew drone based cloud seeding over the Kenai Peninsula in August. The ordinance would require ten items in a borough lease or land use permit application, prohibit the activity on borough lands open for casual use, and carry a $1,000 per day fine and a five year application ban for a missing closeout summary. Its reach is borough land; the August flight that prompted it was over state land. The borough's record now carries an October 6th agenda date in the Policies and Procedures Committee.

A public hearing on the ordinance is set for October 20th. Written comment to the Assembly is open until then.
SEP 3Ordinance 2026-35 introduced by the mayor
SEP 15On the Policies and Procedures Committee agenda
SEP 15Companion Resolution 2026-046 adopted, 7 yes, 0 no, 2 absent
OCT 6Policies and Procedures Committee agenda date recorded by the borough
OCT 20Public hearing on Ordinance 2026-35, the point at which the public can speak to it
COMMENT NOW · CLOSES OCT 20
Sources · Kenai Peninsula Borough legislative record · Kenai Peninsula Borough, Ordinance 2026-35 as introduced · Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Commissioner's letter to the borough mayor · Kenai Peninsula Borough, signed Resolution 2026-046
2026-10-11 · Re-read the borough's legislative record today. Ordinance 2026-35 is still Pending in the Policies and Procedures Committee with one recorded action, introduced and set for hearing on September 15th. Its attachments are unchanged since September 17th and its title still carries the October 20th hearing. Checked and unchanged.
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OPEN TO YOU REGULATORY DOCKET by OCT 30

The FCC asks whether AI should help run the Universal Service Fund

DECIDES · FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

The FCC published a notice on August 31st, 2026 seeking comment on how the Universal Service Fund is administered, and nine of its sentences name artificial intelligence. It asks whether AI tools used to review applications, audits and appeal review processes would reduce delays while maintaining accurate results, and whether the fund's administrator should expand use of AI in document review for audits and program compliance. One paragraph poses eight consecutive questions about AI. The Commission is asking rather than proposing, and every AI sentence in the notice is phrased as a question. The same notice seeks comment on cutting the administrator's board from 20 members to 13. Alaska is not named anywhere in it. Alaska's stake is in a companion notice published the same day, WC Docket No. 17-310, which reports that only 34 of 340 approved Telecom Program requests in Alaska in funding year 2025 relied on the Commission's preferred Methods 1 or 2, so the great majority of Alaska's rural health connectivity requests are justified the longer way. That is the paperwork an automated reviewer would read.

Anyone may file. Initial comments closed on September 30th, and reply comments are due on or before October 30th in WC Docket No. 26-173, through the Commission's electronic filing system under 47 CFR 1.415 and 1.419. The notice gives Alaska no separate deadline and no separate route, so an Alaska clinic, school district, library or carrier files on the same clock as everyone else.
AUG 6Adopted by the Commission
AUG 7Released
AUG 31Published in the Federal Register at 91 FR 55826
SEP 30Comments due, WC Docket No. 26-173
OCT 30Reply comments due, WC Docket No. 26-173
COMMENT NOW · CLOSES OCT 30
Sources · Federal Communications Commission via govinfo.gov · Federal Communications Commission via govinfo.gov
2026-10-11 · Searched the Federal Register today for any later notice in WC Docket No. 26-173 published since September 25th and found none, so reply comments remain due on or before October 30th. Checked and unchanged.
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OPEN TO YOU REGULATORY DOCKET by NOV 2

DeepGreen's underwater data center in Cook Inlet

DECIDES · FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

DeepGreen Cook Inlet SPV LLC, a Delaware company whose parent formed in January 2026, applied to FERC in February for a preliminary permit over an initial operational envelope of 1,650 acres of Cook Inlet seabed west of Nikiski, proposing a 100 megawatt data center of 66 hives of AI servers powered and cooled by approximately 330 to 350 tidal turbines in water 45 to 166 feet deep. A preliminary permit authorizes study rather than construction, for up to four years, and FERC's Northwest branch found the application incomplete in a June 18th letter.

The comment room is open. FERC accepted DeepGreen Cook Inlet SPV, LLC's preliminary permit application for filing and published notice in the Federal Register on September 4th, 2026, opening the record on Project No. P-15423-000. Comments, motions to intervene, competing applications and notices of intent to file competing applications are due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on November 2nd, 2026, which is 1:00 p.m. Alaska time. Filing runs through FERC's eFiling system and the docket is readable through eLibrary. A preliminary permit grants study and site priority rather than authority to build, so what is open here is the record on whether the applicant gets up to four years of priority to study the site.
FEB 11Preliminary permit application filed with FERC
JUN 18FERC's Northwest branch finds the application incomplete
JUN 26Application supplemented
AUG 19First Alaska reporting on the filing
SEP 4FERC accepts the application for filing and publishes notice in the Federal Register
SEP 14Kenai Peninsula Borough files a motion to intervene
SEP 20Alaska Energy Authority marine survey crews mobilise for the Cook Inlet PowerLink in the same inlet
SEP 21DeepGreen files a response with the commission
OCT 22Cook Inlet PowerLink marine survey fieldwork ends
NOV 2Comments, motions to intervene and competing applications due, 5:00 p.m. Eastern
COMMENT NOW · CLOSES NOV 2
Sources · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, eComment · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, via govinfo.gov · Anchorage Daily News · The Maine Monitor · The Maine Monitor · Alaska Energy Authority · Federal Register · Peninsula Clarion · Federal Register · Homer News · Anchorage Daily News · Alaska Journal of Commerce, via Anchorage Daily News
2026-10-10 · Searched the Federal Register today for Alaska notices published since October 1st and found none for docket P-15423 or DeepGreen. No permit has been issued or denied. Comments, motions to intervene and competing applications remain due November 2nd. Checked and unchanged.
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INDIRECT DECISION next NOV 2

The University of Alaska's AI policy

DECIDES · UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA BOARD OF REGENTS

A mandatory University of Alaska security standard has governed generative AI use across the system since January 2025, while the university's own guidance page, last updated March 11th, 2025, still says UA System regulations are currently under development. University leadership plans to submit a finalized draft artificial intelligence policy for approval at the November regents meeting, which KTOO reports would require all three campuses to develop AI plans for their communities.

There is no comment room on this one yet. The university says it plans listening sessions and online surveys this fall, and as of September 16th no session dates had been scheduled. The document binding users today is a security standard issued through the Office of Information Technology rather than anything the regents have voted on, and it has been in effect since January 2025. It applies to the UA System and all users of UA computing resources, and violations may subject employees to disciplinary action up to and including termination and students to disciplinary action including expulsion.
JAN 1 2025UA Generative AI Security Standard takes effect, dated January 2025 with no day given
MAR 11 2025The GenAI policies and guidelines page carries its last update stamp
SEP 16KTOO reports the Board of Regents reviewed a draft AI policy at a meeting at UAS
NOV 2Public testimony before the November regents meeting, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
NOV 4Regents committee meetings begin, 1 p.m.
NOV 5Board of Regents meets in Fairbanks, with AI guiding principles expected for consideration
NOV 6Board of Regents meeting continues in Fairbanks
JAN 1 2027The security standard's own next scheduled review, January 2027 with no day given
Sources · University of Alaska Office of Information Technology · University of Alaska · University of Alaska Board of Regents · KTOO · University of Alaska Anchorage · University of Alaska Board of Regents · Anchorage Daily News
2026-10-10 · Re-read the Board of Regents schedule page today. It posts no agenda for the November meeting yet and lists no artificial intelligence policy in its policy index, so the draft policy has not been published for the November 5th and 6th board meeting. Checked and unchanged.
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INDIRECT LEGISLATION next NOV 9

The federal bill that would make a 100 megawatt customer pay for its own wires

DECIDES · U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THEN THE SENATE AND THE PRESIDENT, AND AFTER THAT EVERY STATE REGULATORY AUTHORITY INCLUDING THE REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA

H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, would add a standard to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act requiring that rates charged a large-load customer recover from that customer the full, incremental cost of any generation, transmission or distribution upgrade needed to serve it, and keep recovering it if the customer walks away. A large-load customer is a non-residential consumer with aggregate peak demand of 100 megawatts or more at one site or campus, running information technology infrastructure for data storage and computation, which is a data center described without the phrase. State regulators would get one year from enactment to begin considering it and two to decide. A state is excused if, before enactment, it implemented a comparable standard, conducted a proceeding on one, or its legislature voted on one. Alaska's Senate passed SB 250, a comparable cost-allocation bill, on May 16th, and the House never voted. Whether one chamber satisfies the words the State legislature has voted is unresolved, and it decides whether Alaska is already excused.

There is no comment room on a bill. The route is the congressional delegation, and after enactment it becomes a proceeding at the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, which is a room with a docket and a public record. The House passed the bill on September 16th and the Senate declined to take it up on September 30th, so it waits on the lame-duck session that opens November 9th.
JUL 21House Energy and Commerce advances the bill 52 to 0
SEP 10Reported to the House as H. Rept. 119-814 and placed on Union Calendar 713
SEP 16House passes the bill 417 to 3 on Roll No. 312
SEP 16Engrossed House text issued and the bill goes to the Senate
SEP 24Placed on the Senate legislative calendar as Calendar No. 684
SEP 28Motion to proceed made in the Senate and a cloture motion on it presented
SEP 30Senate rejects cloture on the motion to proceed, 57 to 43 with 60 needed
NOV 9The Senate returns for a five-week lame-duck session, per States Newsroom
Sources · U.S. Government Publishing Office, govinfo, reported bill text · U.S. Government Publishing Office, govinfo · U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Davis Wright Tremaine, Energy and Environmental Law Blog · BillTrack50, Alaska SB 250 · U.S. House Republican Cloakroom, floor record · U.S. Government Publishing Office, govinfo · House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Roll Call · Alaska's News Source · U.S. Government Publishing Office, govinfo, Senate calendar print · Library of Congress bill status on govinfo · U.S. Senate, roll call vote 254 · Office of the Clerk, U.S. House, roll call 312
2026-10-09 · Checked GovInfo today. The latest published versions are still the engrossed House text and the Senate calendar print, with no Senate-passed or enrolled version, so no further Senate action has been published. Checked and unchanged.
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CLOSED REGULATORY DOCKET next NOV 30

The Dixon Glacier diversion into Bradley Lake

DECIDES · FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

The Alaska Energy Authority has asked FERC to amend the license for the Bradley Lake Hydroelectric Project, the largest in Alaska, so it can build a new dam diverting meltwater and surface runoff from the Dixon Glacier into Bradley Lake, raise the lake's normal maximum operating pool by about 16 feet, and install a 0.3 megawatt micro-hydro turbine in one of the dam's fishwater release valves. The application projects about 38 percent more average annual generation while installed capacity rises from 119.7 to 120.0 megawatts, because the gain comes from water rather than from turbines. AEA estimates construction at about $400 million and about three years of study and permitting followed by three years of construction. FERC accepting the application for filing is a procedural step and not an approval.

The comment window has closed. Anyone could file a comment, a motion to intervene or a protest in docket P-8221-124 until 5:00 p.m. Eastern on August 28th, 2026, which was 1:00 p.m. Alaska time, and that hour has passed. FERC now weighs the application and has published no decision date. The docket itself stays readable through FERC's eLibrary, so an Alaskan can follow what was filed without being able to add to it.
JUN 30Amendment application filed with FERC
JUL 23AEA board endorses a financing package for the expansion
AUG 3FERC notice published in the Federal Register
AUG 28Comments, motions to intervene and protests due, 5:00 p.m. Eastern
NOV 30Recommendations, terms and conditions, and fishway prescriptions due at FERC, 5:00 p.m. Eastern
JAN 14 2027Reply comments due at FERC, 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Sources · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, via govinfo.gov · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, via govinfo.gov · Alaska Energy Authority · Alaska Energy Authority · Petroleum News · Alaska's News Source · Alaska Energy Authority
2026-10-09 · FERC published a new notice on October 6th, 91 FR 63543, in Project No. 8221-124. After reviewing the comments filed by August 28th, Commission staff now request recommendations, terms and conditions, and fishway prescriptions by November 30th, with reply comments due January 14th, 2027, both by 5 p.m. Eastern. No order on the amendment has been issued.
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INDIRECT LEGISLATION next JAN 19 2027

Fairbanks asks Juneau and Congress to pause data centers

DECIDES · ALASKA LEGISLATURE AND THE ALASKA CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION

On August 27th, 2026 the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly adopted Resolution 2026-25, its list of 2027 state and federal legislative priorities, sponsored by the Assembly Committee of the Whole. The list carries 25 items, 21 state and 4 federal, and one item appears on both halves. It asks for a moratorium on the permitting, leasing or construction of new commercial data centers on state-owned or municipal lands in Alaska until standards exist for electrical demand, water consumption and shortages, environmental impacts, noise, air quality and land use pollution. Assemblymember Garrett Armstrong moved it onto the state list at an August 6th work session and an amendment replicated it onto the federal list. The request follows the Air Force offer of about 4,700 acres across twelve parcels at three Alaska installations, one of which, Eielson, is inside this borough. The adopted text reaches state and municipal land, not federal land, and KUAC reports Presiding Officer Scott Crass said by phone that federal land was intended too.

The borough has already voted, so the room that was open is closed. What the resolution does is hand the question to two bodies that have not acted on it. A reader who wants the moratorium considered asks a legislator to carry it when the Legislature convenes in January 2027, or asks the congressional delegation to take up the federal half. The resolution itself, its full text and the meeting record are public through the borough clerk.
AUG 6Armstrong moves the moratorium onto the state list at a Committee of the Whole work session
AUG 20Committee of the Whole takes up the priorities list
AUG 27Assembly adopts Resolution 2026-25
OCT 6Borough election for three Assembly seats whose candidates split on the moratorium request
JAN 19 2027The 35th Alaska Legislature convenes, the earliest the state half can be taken up
Sources · Fairbanks North Star Borough Clerk's Office, Action Memorandum · Fairbanks North Star Borough, Resolution 2026-25 in the August 27, 2026 agenda packet · KUAC · Fairbanks Daily News-Miner · Alaska's News Source · Fairbanks North Star Borough · Alaska's News Source · Fairbanks North Star Borough Clerk, Unofficial Election Results Summary · Fairbanks North Star Borough, Elections
2026-10-10 · The borough's unofficial results of October 7th show Alexis Howell ahead of Miguel Ramirez 7,230 to 7,107 for Seat D, Nick LaJiness ahead of Shelly Shupe 7,919 to 6,599 for Seat E, and Scott W. Crass ahead of Joshua Leaders 7,465 to 6,843 for Seat H. On October 13th the clerk counts the qualified ballots among 811 absentee and 424 questioned, and the Assembly certifies the election on October 22nd, so Seat D's 123 vote margin is not final. No Assembly action on the moratorium request itself is scheduled.
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CLOSED STATE LAND LEASE Pending decision

STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease

DECIDES · ALASKA DNR, DIVISION OF OIL AND GAS

A preliminary decision would give STAK Energy a 50-year lease on 715.4 acres of state land about 26 miles south of Deadhorse for a gas-fired AI and cloud campus its developer pegs at more than $10 billion, with 1 to 3 gigawatts of on-site generation. More than 500 public comments arrived before the first deadline; fewer than a dozen supported the project.

The written comment window closed 4:30 p.m. July 17th, 2026. DNR now weighs more than 500 comments before a final best-interest decision on the 50-year lease. No public comment path remains open.
MAY 12Preliminary decision noticed (ADL 422741)
JUN 15Original comment deadline
JUN 17Comment period extended for volume and public interest
JUL 17Public comment closes, 4:30 p.m. AKDT
Sources · Alaska DNR Online Public Notices · Alaska DNR Online Public Notices · Northern Journal · Northern Journal
2026-10-09 · Re-read the DNR notice for ADL 422741 today, which answered this time. It still carries the May 12th preliminary decision and its attachments with an archive date of July 18th, and no final finding and decision is posted. No decision has been reported in coverage through October 8th. Checked and unchanged.
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CLOSED FEDERAL LEASE Pending decision

Air Force land leases for AI data centers at JBER, Eielson and Clear

DECIDES · DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE, ENHANCED USE LEASE PROGRAM

The Air Force offered about 4,700 acres across 12 parcels at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Eielson AFB and Clear Space Force Station for privately financed AI data centers. Residents near the five Eielson-area parcels raised noise, permafrost and grid concerns, including one parcel less than a mile from North Pole Middle School.

Proposals closed in the spring and are evaluated privately. No public comment period exists and no award timeline has been announced. The solicitation record is public and carries no awardee.
APR 10Program announced
JUN 29Developer proposals due, 5 p.m. Eastern
JUL 14Solicitation record archived with no award posted
JUL 22U.S. House passes FY2027 NDAA carrying a data center lease restriction
JUL 23Bill introduced in the U.S. House to ban AI data centers on federal land
AUG 10Proposals due on a separate Eielson mixed-use lease covering 3,967 acres
SEP 15Sen. Murkowski says an insecure energy base keeps her from backing data centers at JBER and the Interior installations at this time
Sources · U.S. Air Force · Fairbanks Daily News-Miner · Alaska's News Source · Office of Sen. Dan Sullivan · HigherGov (SAM.gov mirror) · Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Federal News Network · Office of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, U.S. House · Eielson Air Force Base · Anchorage Daily News · SAM.gov, Department of the Air Force · SAM.gov, U.S. General Services Administration · KUAC via Alaska Public Media
2026-10-11 · Re-read the solicitation record for AFCEC-26-R-0006 on HigherGov today. It still shows the June 29th deadline as past due, a last update and archive date of July 14th, and no award, so no lease has been reported for any parcel at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Eielson or Clear. Checked and unchanged.
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INDIRECT UTILITY DECISION Pending decision

GVEA's $80 million turbine decision

DECIDES · GOLDEN VALLEY ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Golden Valley Electric Association is weighing a 60 megawatt naphtha fueled turbine estimated at $80 million, to be installed beside an existing LM6000 at the co-op's North Pole Expansion plant. Its board voted on August 25th, 2026 to keep the purchase alive and to keep studying the risks and the alternatives.

A member-owned co-op board decides, in executive session. GVEA members reach it through board elections and member comment periods at regular meetings.
JUL 13Board weighs the purchase in executive session
AUG 25Board votes 4 to 3 in Delta Junction to move ahead on a possible purchase and to keep studying alternatives
Sources · Fairbanks Daily News-Miner · KUAC · Fairbanks Daily News-Miner · KUAC · Reporting From Alaska
2026-10-10 · Checked KUAC's energy coverage again today. Its newest Golden Valley story is still the August 27th report that the board voted to keep studying a used LM6000 at no more than $80 million, and no purchase vote has been reported or scheduled since. Checked and unchanged.
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INDIRECT REGULATORY DOCKET Pending decision

Enstar's Cook Inlet gas storage plan (Kenai Loop Pool)

DECIDES · REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA (PRUDENCY); ALASKA DNR (STORAGE LEASE AND TECHNICAL DETERMINATION)

On July 10th, 2026 the Anchorage Daily News reported the RCA issued a 17-page order denying Enstar's request for an advance determination that its proposed Cook Inlet gas storage project was prudent, saying the utility lacked basic information. The $240 million project would have bought the depleted Kenai Loop Pool reservoir from AIX Energy to hold 25 billion cubic feet of gas, close to half Enstar's annual demand, adding up to $12 a month to the average bill. Enstar and Hilcorp have competing DNR lease applications for the same pool, and DNR has not confirmed it is technically capable of storing gas. Without approval, Enstar president John Sims said the company suspended the project. Enstar reopened the question on July 23rd, 2026 with a 31-page petition for reconsideration, arguing the order was erroneous and suffers from a lack of true understanding of the nature of the problem, and calling the Kenai Loop Pool the only viable commercial storage option in Cook Inlet. Alaska Public Media reports the commission has thirty days to respond and that inaction is an automatic denial.

The RCA is a governor-appointed, legislature-confirmed commission, and the public reaches its dockets through formal comment and intervention. The prudency question is open again on Enstar's petition for reconsideration. The underlying DNR storage-lease question is also still open.
JUL 10RCA denies Enstar advance determination of prudency (ADN report); Enstar suspends the project
JUL 10DNR determination on Kenai Loop Pool storage capability and competing Enstar/Hilcorp leases still pending
AUG 21RCA denies reconsideration 3 to 2, with a written order to follow
AUG 22RCA acts on Enstar's petition for reconsideration, or the petition is denied automatically
Sources · Anchorage Daily News · Alaska Public Media · Regulatory Commission of Alaska · Alaska's News Source · Petroleum News · Petroleum News · Petroleum News · Petroleum News
2026-10-10 · Searched statewide coverage today and found nothing on the Kenai Loop Pool newer than the Petroleum News report of October 4th on Hilcorp's Beluga River storage pad, whose Army Corps comments remain due October 30th. The Division of Oil and Gas has published no decision between the competing Hilcorp and Enstar storage proposals. Checked and unchanged.
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AIDEA's free state land for a Mat-Su data center park

DECIDES · ALASKA DNR, COMMISSIONER JOHN CROWTHER

A DNR preliminary decision would transfer about 19,950 acres, roughly 31 square miles, of state land about two miles north of Houston in the Mat-Su to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority at no charge, a state subsidy meant to seed a multi-use industrial and energy district that AIDEA's own development plan describes as including scalable data centers, advanced manufacturing pads and a logistics hub on the Parks Highway and the Alaska Railroad, about 60 road miles north of Anchorage. Written public comment was to close August 19th, DNR extended it to September 14th, and it is now closed. The decision sits with the department.

The comment room is closed. Written comment on ADL 234762 ran from July 10th through September 14th, the state's notice archived the day after, and Alaska DNR received more than 2,100 comments. Only people from whom the division received timely written comment during that period may appeal the Final Finding and Decision, so the appeal stays open to those who wrote in and is shut to everyone else. No final finding and decision has been published. The rooms still open belong to other bodies. Houston's city council has introduced a two-year moratorium on the construction of new data centers, to be heard October 8th, and anyone may address that council.
JUL 13Preliminary decision reported
AUG 13Houston City Council rejects a data-center ban 4 to 2 and passes two resolutions objecting to the transfer process
AUG 19Original public comment period ends
AUG 26AIDEA board meeting, 9:00 a.m., Anchorage
AUG 27Public meeting on the conveyance, 6:00 p.m., on Zoom
SEP 1AIDEA asked to attend a Houston City Council meeting in September, no date set
SEP 2Second public meeting on the conveyance, 11:30 a.m., on Zoom
SEP 9Five Senate Resources Committee members write to DNR questioning the conveyance's legality
SEP 14Extended public comment period ends
SEP 15Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly votes unanimously to oppose the transfer
OCT 8Houston City Council hears a two-year moratorium on new data center construction
Sources · Alaska DNR Online Public Notices · Reporting From Alaska · Northern Journal · Mat-Su Sentinel · Anchorage Daily News, AIDEA opinion · Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority · Mat-Su Sentinel · Alaska DNR Online Public Notices · Anchorage Daily News and Mat-Su Sentinel · Alaska DNR Online Public Notices · Alaska Beacon · Mat-Su Sentinel
2026-10-11 · Re-read the State of Alaska notice for ADL 234762 today. Its revision history still ends on August 19th and its attachments are still the application, the preliminary decision and a vicinity map. No final finding and decision is posted. No outcome of the Houston City Council's October 8th moratorium hearing has been published that could be found today. Checked and unchanged.
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The AI ratepayer pledge, and which Alaska utilities have signed it

DECIDES · EACH ALASKA ELECTRIC UTILITY BOARD, INCLUDING THE RAILBELT COOPERATIVES

The White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge asks AI companies, utilities and data center developers to commit that new data center load pays for its own generation and delivery instead of shifting the cost onto households. USA TODAY and POWER both describe it as voluntary and non binding. Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed the governors addendum on July 23rd, 2026, one of 23 governors. The signatory list has grown from 281 when it was first read here on July 26th, 2026 to 324 on October 10th, and across that growth exactly one Alaska entity appears on it, Cordova Electric Cooperative, a 1,566 customer cooperative that is not connected by transmission line to any other community. No Railbelt utility has signed.

Alaska's electric cooperatives are governed by boards their own members elect, so a member can ask their board directly whether it intends to sign. A voluntary federal pledge has no public comment docket, which is why this room is indirect rather than open.
MAR 4Pledge first signed by seven AI companies at the White House
JUL 23Governors addendum signed, Dunleavy among 23 governors
JUL 26Signatory list read at 281, one Alaska entity on it
Sources · The White House · Republican Governors Association · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · POWER Magazine · Cordova Electric Cooperative
2026-10-10 · Correction. Notes here from September 19th to October 6th said no Alaska entity appeared on the signatory list. Cordova Electric Cooperative is on it, listed under Cooperatives with its own site cordovaelectric.com, re-read today against the White House page, which counts 324 signatories (207 cooperatives, 72 utilities and 45 data center developers). It remains the only Alaska signatory, and no Railbelt utility appears.
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Alaska's statewide speech-to-text contract

DECIDES · ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

Alaska is soliciting one statewide contract to convert speech, live or recorded, into written text for general, medical and legal records. The notice says every state governmental entity may use the resulting contract, naming the Legislative Branch, the Court System, the University of Alaska, boards and commissions, cities, boroughs, school districts and federally recognized tribes. The public notice does not use the terms artificial intelligence, machine learning or automated speech recognition.

A vendor solicitation, not a rulemaking, so no public comment period exists. Proposals closed August 28th and are evaluated privately. The notice and the named procurement officer are public, though the notice's own archive date has now passed. No award has been posted.
JUL 31Solicitation published on the state public notice system
AUG 28Vendor proposals due, 3:30 p.m. Alaska time
Sources · Alaska Online Public Notice System
2026-10-11 · Re-read the State of Alaska public notice for RFP 2026-0200-0064 today. It still lists Amendment One and the August 28th proposal deadline, was last modified August 17th and archived August 31st, and posts no notice of intent to award. Checked and unchanged.
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DMV asks vendors about automated compliance for commercial licenses

DECIDES · ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION, DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES

The Division of Motor Vehicles asked vendors for products, services, technical approaches and industry best practices related to automated compliance and data integration systems supporting the commercial driver's license program. The public notice does not use the terms artificial intelligence or machine learning.

A request for information gathers vendor input before any solicitation. There is no public comment path and no decision is made at this stage.
JUL 30Request for information published
AUG 20Vendor responses due, 2 p.m.
Sources · Alaska Online Public Notice System
2026-10-09 · Re-read the state's public notice for RFI 02-101-27 today. It still carries the request and Amendment One, with an archive date of August 21st, and no solicitation or intent to award has followed. Checked and unchanged.
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INDIRECT GRANT Pending decision

A national AI institute for Native communities, and the Alaska lane that closed with it

DECIDES · ADMINISTRATION FOR NATIVE AMERICANS, HHS ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

The Administration for Native Americans published its final Fiscal Year 2026 program policies on July 28th, 2026, standing up three funding opportunities and leaving out SEDS-AK, the Alaska-specific economic development program that ran alongside SEDS for decades. Two days later it posted the AI3 Action Institute, a single national award of up to $3,500,000 to build an artificial intelligence resource center for Native communities, with Alaska Native villages under ANCSA and nonprofit village consortia named as eligible applicants.

Only eligible applicants reached this one, and applications closed on August 27th, 2026, so no public path remains. An Alaskan reached it through a tribe, an ANCSA village or a Native nonprofit that filed in time. Applications are evaluated privately and no awardee has been named.
JUL 28Final Fiscal Year 2026 issuance published at 91 FR 47241, standing up EAGLE, the AI3 Action Institute and NCNTTA
JUL 28EAGLE posted, $24,000,000 across about 31 awards, applications due August 27
JUL 30AI3 Action Institute posted, one award, ceiling $3,500,000
AUG 27Applications close on both EAGLE and the AI3 Action Institute
SEP 26The posted opportunity is archived
Sources · Federal Register · GovInfo · Grants.gov, AI3 Action Institute · Grants.gov, EAGLE · Tribal Business News
2026-10-11 · Re-read the Grants.gov listing today. HHS-2026-ACF-ANA-NAI-0035, the AI3 Action Institute, is still archived as of September 26th, with one award expected between $2,500,000 and $3,500,000. No recipient is named and no award notice has been published. Checked and unchanged.
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The executive order that lets big data centers skip the usual federal review

DECIDES · THE PRESIDENT, CARRIED OUT BY THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND THE INTERIOR, ENERGY AND DEFENSE DEPARTMENTS

Executive Order 14318, Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure, directs federal agencies to speed approvals for data centers adding more than 100 megawatts of load or costing at least 500 million dollars. It tells agencies to find and create categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act, and directs Interior and Energy to offer federal sites while Defense may competitively lease military land.

An executive order takes no public comment. Its effect is to remove review steps that would otherwise have carried one, so the room this closes is the environmental review a project would have had.
JUL 23 2025Order signed
JUL 28 2025Published in the Federal Register
Sources · Federal Register · The American Presidency Project · GovInfo, Compilation of Presidential Documents
2026-10-10 · Searched the Federal Register today for any document citing Executive Order 14318 published since October 1st and found none. The order stands unamended, and no Alaska project has been identified under it. Checked and unchanged.
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CLOSED GRANT Pending decision

An 89 million dollar federal grant for a coal plant in the Susitna watershed

DECIDES · U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY MADE THE SELECTION; THE PLANT ITSELF NEEDS STATE AND FEDERAL PERMITS NOBODY HAS APPLIED FOR YET

The Department of Energy selected Terra Energy Center Corporation of Anchorage, an affiliate of Flatlands Energy, for an 89 million dollar grant to study a 1,250 megawatt coal fired power plant west of Skwentna, with a 60 mile pipeline carrying its carbon dioxide to Beluga for injection into a depleted gas reservoir. The money funds a viability assessment rather than construction, and Terra must match it.

The grant selection carried no public comment period. Comment rooms open later, when the mine, the plant, the pipeline and the injection well each need their own permits.
JUN 4Federal grant selection announced
Sources · Anchorage Daily News · U.S. Department of Energy · U.S. Department of Energy · Mat-Su Sentinel
2026-10-11 · Re-read the Department of Energy's selection page today. It still lists Terra Energy Center Corporation of Anchorage for $89,000,000 in federal funding toward a $190,375,155 project, a 1,250 MW coal plant with carbon capture in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, with no award or cancellation notice. Checked and unchanged.
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Alaska's bid to run its own carbon storage permits

DECIDES · ALASKA OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION APPLIES; THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY DECIDES

The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is applying to the Environmental Protection Agency for primary enforcement authority over Class VI wells, the wells used to inject carbon dioxide for permanent underground storage. If the application succeeds the state, not the federal government, would permit and police every carbon storage well in Alaska.

The state comment window closed at the end of the May 14th, 2026 hearing. The federal review of the application carries its own comment period, which has not opened.
MAR 3Public meeting on adopting the state regulations
MAY 14State hearing, and the close of written and oral comment
Sources · Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission · Petroleum News · State of Alaska, draft primacy application
2026-10-11 · Searched the Federal Register today for Alaska documents published since October 1st. None of the 37 concerns the Environmental Protection Agency's review of Alaska's Class VI application. Checked and unchanged.
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The Kenai Peninsula school district's AI rulebook

DECIDES · KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is writing the rules for artificial intelligence in its 39 schools while the school year starts. Its Policy Review Committee took up AR 5131.9 Academic Honesty, a new administrative regulation the district says was brought forward in relation to the inclusion of AI, on August 3rd, 2026, with two competing drafts posted, one from Administration and one from board member Mica VanBuskirk. That same evening the full board took first readings on three more documents the district describes as revised for AI-related policy shifts, AR 5125 Student Records, BP 1114 Communication Using Electronic Media and BP 5131.9 Academic Honesty, plus AR 6161.4 Acceptable Use. The board adopted both academic honesty documents on September 14th, BP 5131.9 on a second reading and AR 5131.9 as a new administrative regulation, inside a single unanimous consent agenda motion. The rest of the package has no adoption recorded. The district told KBBI in July that it has spent 8,300 dollars to date on a three year MagicSchool subscription for students and staff, so the classroom AI tool was bought before the rulebook was finished. Upstream sits Alaska's Strategic Framework, Artificial Intelligence for K-12, issued by the Department of Education and Early Development, which means what Kenai adopts previews what other Alaska districts face.

An elected school board decides, and its regular meetings carry a public comment period. There is no formal comment window on these documents and no published date for a final vote, so an Alaskan reaches this one through a board member or from the podium at a meeting.
JUL 6AR 5131.9 first presented to the Policy Review Committee and postponed
AUG 3Committee takes up AR 5131.9 with two competing drafts, and the board takes first readings on four more documents that evening
AUG 19First student day of the 2026-27 year districtwide
SEP 14Board adopts BP 5131.9 on second reading and approves AR 5131.9 as a new administrative regulation, 9 to 0 on the consent agenda
Sources · KPBSD E-Governance · KPBSD E-Governance · KPBSD E-Governance · Alaska Department of Education and Early Development · KBBI AM 890 · KDLL 91.9 FM · KPBSD E-Governance · KPBSD E-Governance · KPBSD E-Governance, September 14th work session · KPBSD E-Governance · KPBSD E-Governance
2026-10-10 · The district's agenda portal returned a 503 service error today, the third check in a row it could not be read, so nothing newer than the board's September 14th adoption of BP 5131.9 and AR 5131.9 could be confirmed.
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Which grid equipment gets restricted, and the reason given is AI

DECIDES · U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

A request for information implementing the August 26th emergency declaration on securing the United States bulk-power system. It asks which equipment and transactions should count as covered, naming grid-connected inverters, battery energy storage, universal power systems, generators and industrial control systems. The notice grounds the emergency in a finding that rapid growth of advanced manufacturing, data centers, artificial intelligence and defense production has increased the nation's dependence on abundant, reliable electricity. Alaska's Railbelt and rural utilities are mid-buildout on the inverter and storage categories listed, so a restriction reprices projects already in planning.

The written response period under docket DOE-HQ-2026-1123 closed on October 9th. The department has not said when it will act on the responses.
AUG 26Emergency declaration on the bulk-power system
SEP 9Request for information published
SEP 16Public webinar, 3 to 4 p.m. Eastern
OCT 9Written responses accepted on or before this date
Sources · Federal Register, U.S. Department of Energy · Federal Register · Federal Register via GPO govinfo, U.S. Department of Energy
2026-10-11 · The written response period closed on October 9th. Searched the Federal Register today for anything on the bulk-power system published since September 25th and found only a routine FERC information collection notice of October 6th, with no extension or reopening of this request. The department has not said when it will act on the responses.
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Renting the highway shoulder to power and fiber, with data centers named as the draw

DECIDES · U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, BUILD AMERICA BUREAU

A request for information launching America's Great Corridors of Commerce, a voluntary program letting highway and rail right-of-way owners raise revenue by colocating utility infrastructure in their corridors through public-private partnerships. Transmission, fiber, rural broadband and water pipelines are all named. One stated aim is to incentivize data centers, manufacturing facilities and distribution hubs to locate close to the corridors. Alaska has four long corridors and a railroad, and every large compute proposal in the state is shaped around one of them, yet the notice does not mention Alaska and frames the program around multi-state corridors, a shape no Alaskan right-of-way has.

The written comment period under docket DOT-OST-2026-3269 closed on October 2nd. The notice says late comments will be considered to the extent practicable, so a filing at regulations.gov is still possible, though a reading is no longer assured.
SEP 11Request for information published
OCT 2Written comments due
Sources · Federal Register, U.S. Department of Transportation · Federal Register via GovInfo
2026-10-11 · Searched the Federal Register today for any Department of Transportation notice on the corridors request published since September 25th and found none. The written comment period closed on October 2nd and the department has not said when it will act. Checked and unchanged.
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North Slope Power, the borough's gas plant for AI data centers

DECIDES · NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH MAYOR AND ASSEMBLY

The North Slope Borough and Twenty First Century Utilities are developing North Slope Power, a gas-fired plant near Prudhoe Bay planned at 3 gigawatts in its first phase and meant to scale to 10, to deliver electricity to colocated AI data centers. As reported by the Alaska Current, the borough has funded a $1.2 million no-bid feasibility contract and committed another $5 million in public funds.

The borough commits money to North Slope Power by Assembly resolution and mayoral contract, so the elected borough government is the path in. The deal's financial structure has not been made public.
Sources · The Alaska Current · Dermot Cole, Reporting from Alaska
2026-10-09 · Searched Alaska energy coverage from September 28th to October 8th today and found no new filing, contract or borough action on the North Slope Power plan since The Alaska Current's October 3rd report. Checked and unchanged.
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CLOSED GRANT Pending decision

A second power line between Southcentral and the Interior, Beluga to Healy

DECIDES · U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, WITH THE ALASKA ENERGY AUTHORITY

On October 5th the Department of Energy announced its intent to put up to $150 million of Defense Production Act funding into the Alaska Energy Authority's Beluga-Healy Transmission Project, a second high-voltage connection between Southcentral and Interior Alaska. DOE counts on $268 million in non-federal funding for a preliminary estimate of about $418 million, and about 223 miles of new line. The Railbelt now relies on a single corridor, AEA's 170-mile Alaska Intertie between Willow and Healy, built in the mid-1980s. Energy Secretary Chris Wright tied the award to the military expansion under way in Alaska and to mining. The release does not mention data centers, though the Air Force has offered about 4,700 acres at JBER, Eielson and Clear for them.

The Energy Department chose this project under the Defense Production Act, and none of the announcements names a public comment period or a hearing. The Alaska Energy Authority, which proposed the line, now has to find the rest of the money.
AUG 28The Alaska Energy Authority presents Beluga to Healy to the Energy Secretary as a project under consideration
OCT 5Energy Department announces up to $150 million in Defense Production Act funding
Sources · U.S. Department of Energy · Your Alaska Link · Alaska Beacon, via Yahoo News · Alaska Energy Authority · Alaska Energy Authority
2026-10-11 · Re-read the Department of Energy's October 5th release today. It still states an intent to deploy up to $150 million in Defense Production Act funding beside $268 million in non-federal funding, about $418 million in all, and names no agreement, environmental review or construction schedule yet. Checked and unchanged.
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The AKLNG gas line tax bill

DECIDES · ALASKA LEGISLATURE, THIRD SPECIAL SESSION

A conference committee compromise unveiled July 2nd would swap the state property tax on the Glenfarne-led Alaska LNG project for a volumetric tax after five years of operation or 500 MMcf per day, and extend the completion deadline to the end of 2034. The House deadlocked 19 to 19 on July 16th over an expanded S corporation income tax, the governor rejected that provision, and a third special session convened July 27th with no bill from the governor and almost no legislators in the room.

Legislators decide; constituents reach them directly. The gas line would feed the grid most Alaska compute would ride on.
JUL 2Draft compromise unveiled
JUL 16Tentative House and Senate floor votes
JUL 19Special session ends
JUL 27Third special session convenes, 10:00 a.m.
AUG 10Senate could convene in full if the House passes a bill
AUG 12House Bipartisan Majority Caucus says HB 4001 lacks the votes to pass
AUG 13Governor says there is little reason to keep the third special session going
AUG 19Glenfarne says it is evaluating alternative paths after the tax effort fails
AUG 20Joint Senate and House Resources Committee meeting in Anchorage on Cook Inlet energy
AUG 25Third special session scheduled to end
Sources · Alaska Beacon via Alaska Public Media · Alaska Public Media · Alaska Beacon · Alaska Public Media · Alaska Public Media · Alaska's News Source · Alaska Public Media · Alaska Public Media · Alaska Public Media · Anchorage Daily News · Anchorage Daily News · Alaska's News Source · Alaska Beacon via Alaska Public Media · Anchorage Daily News · Anchorage Daily News · Alaska Legislature, BASIS
2026-09-26 · Re-read the Legislature's bill record today. HJR 18, a separate resolution urging the federal government to expedite the state natural gas pipeline project, became Legislative Resolve 56 on September 22nd. It changes no tax. The tax break itself still waits on the governor and Legislature seated after the November election.
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Anchorage data-center zoning ordinance AO 2026-27

DECIDES · ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY

On March 27th, 2026 the Anchorage Assembly adopted ordinance AO 2026-27 in a 10 to 2 vote, defining data centers in the municipal zoning code for the first time. It confines them to commercial and industrial zones, requires landscaping buffers and enclosed power equipment, and requires written statements from electric and water utilities that the grid has sufficient system capacity before a project proceeds. Members Scott Myers and Keith McCormick voted against it.

The elected Anchorage Assembly adopted the ordinance in a public 10 to 2 vote. Residents reach it through Assembly elections and public testimony.
MAR 27Assembly adopts AO 2026-27 (10 to 2)
Sources · Anchorage Daily News · Davis Wright Tremaine · Municipality of Anchorage
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.
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HB 259, state utility standards for large data centers

DECIDES · ALASKA LEGISLATURE (HOUSE ENERGY COMMITTEE)

HB 259, introduced by Rep. Donna Mears in January 2026, would have set utility rate-setting guidelines and community benefit agreement standards for large energy use facilities such as data centers, and given the Regulatory Commission of Alaska new duties over them. The House Energy Committee heard it twice, on January 29th and February 3rd, 2026, taking testimony from Greensparc, GCI, the Alaska Municipal League and former Rep. Paul Seaton. It never advanced out of that committee, and it carried a second referral to House Community and Regional Affairs it never reached. The bill died with the 34th Legislature at sine die on May 20th, 2026. Alaska still has no statewide cost-allocation rule governing how a large data-center load is billed against other ratepayers, which leaves that question with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and with individual utility boards.

The bill died when the Legislature adjourned. No public path remains to this vehicle. A constituent who wants these standards has to ask a legislator to introduce them again in the 35th Legislature, which convenes in January 2027.
JAN 20Prefile released, read the first time, referred to House Energy then Community and Regional Affairs
JAN 29First House Energy Committee hearing
FEB 3Second House Energy Committee hearing, last recorded action on the bill
MAY 2034th Legislature adjourns sine die, the bill dies in committee
Sources · Anchorage Daily News · Alaska State Legislature · Anchorage Daily News
2026-09-13 · Checked against the Legislature's own record. The morning sweep of BASIS reports HB 259 sitting in House Energy with a status date of January 20th, which is the referral and not a new action, so the Legislature's view and this entry agree that nothing has moved. The bill died in committee at sine die on May 20th. A direct read of the BASIS bill page was refused today, so this rests on the sweep's record of it.
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The Army's Janus microreactor program at Fort Wainwright

DECIDES · DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, RUNNING ITS SOLICITATION THROUGH THE DEFENSE INNOVATION UNIT

Fort Wainwright was one of nine Army posts short listed for a microreactor under the Janus program. On August 26th, 2026 the Army named the first five installations and their vendors, and Fort Wainwright was not among them.

Industry submissions were taken through the Defense Innovation Unit and are evaluated privately. No public comment period exists at this stage, and no vendor has been named for Fort Wainwright.
NOV 18 2025Army solicitation released through the Defense Innovation Unit
DEC 15 2025Industry submissions due
AUG 26Army names its first five Janus installations and vendors; Fort Wainwright is not selected
Sources · American Nuclear Society, Nuclear Newswire · World Nuclear News · DefenseScoop · U.S. Army
2026-09-30 · Re-read the DefenseScoop report today. The five Janus installations named on August 26th are Fort Bragg, Fort Campbell, Fort Hood, Fort Benning and Fort Drum, and Fort Wainwright is listed among the short-listed sites that were not chosen. Checked and unchanged.
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Copper Valley Electric's shelved nuclear reactor study

DECIDES · COPPER VALLEY ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION BOARD

Copper Valley Electric studied putting a 10 megawatt micro modular reactor into its isolated Glennallen and Valdez system, which is connected to no other utility and burns liquid fossil fuel for roughly a third of its power. The cooperative finished a pre feasibility study, published it, and then tabled the project indefinitely.

Copper Valley Electric is a member owned cooperative, so its board answers to ratepayers who elect it. The project is tabled, so there is nothing before the board to comment on now.
FEB 2 2022Study announced with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
AUG 9 2023Board tables the project indefinitely
Sources · Copper Valley Electric Association · Copper Valley Electric Association · World Nuclear News
2026-10-07 · Re-read the cooperative's project page today. Its newest item is still the August 9th, 2023 release headed that the micro modular reactor project was tabled indefinitely, and nothing dated 2024 or later has been added. Checked and unchanged.
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The University of Alaska's 829 acres at Port MacKenzie, leased to the coal plant's campus

DECIDES · UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA LAND MANAGEMENT SIGNED THE LEASE; ANY LEASE OF THE BOROUGH'S OWN PORT LAND WOULD NEED THE MAT-SU BOROUGH ASSEMBLY

Terra Energy signed a 20 year lease with the University of Alaska in late May for 829 acres near Port MacKenzie, four parcels in Township 14 North, Range 4 West, Seward Meridian, for what the lease calls the Terra Energy Center Campus, a large-scale industrial park. The project is part of affiliate Flatlands Energy's plan for a coal plant near Skwentna, which the Department of Energy selected for $89 million in engineering funding and whose described loads include data centers. Rent is $20,000 in the first year, $60,000 a year in the second and third, and $586,000 a year once operations begin, targeted for 2030, with a 2 percent annual adjustment. Borough officials expect Terra to pursue about 1,000 acres of borough port land as well.

The university's notice of intent to lease took written comments from January 30th to March 2nd and named no tenant and no use. University land is exempt from the state's best interest finding, according to the Mat-Su Sentinel. The next public room is the Mat-Su Borough Assembly, if Terra asks to lease borough land at the port.
JAN 30University of Alaska posts its notice of intent to lease the four parcels
MAR 2Written comments on the notice close at 5 p.m.
MAR 17Mat-Su Assembly overrides the mayor's veto of RS 26-019, a joint marketing effort with Terra aimed at large power users including data centers
Sources · Mat-Su Sentinel · University of Alaska Land Management · University of Alaska Land Management · Matanuska-Susitna Borough
2026-10-08 · Tracked. The Mat-Su Sentinel reported on October 6th that the University of Alaska leased 829 acres near Port MacKenzie to Terra Energy in late May for 20 years. The university's own notice of January 30th lists four parcels at 369.34, 80, 60 and 320 acres, which sum to 829.34, and it names no tenant and no proposed use. Borough officials were not told before the lease was signed, and the port manager said the university leasing the land without any conversation with the borough blows his mind. Terra's full preliminary development plan is confidential, according to the university, and Terra did not respond to the Sentinel.
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CLOSED REGULATORY DOCKET next SEP 13 2027

The Navy's permit for an under-ice robot navigation grid

DECIDES · NOAA NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, OFFICE OF PROTECTED RESOURCES

NMFS has authorized the Office of Naval Research to harass marine mammals incidental to Year 9 of its Arctic Research Activities in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, and what the authorization covers is an acoustic navigation grid. Up to six moored sources at 900 to 950 Hz and two drifting ice gateway buoys will transmit a 30 second pulse every four hours for one year, so that gliders operating under sea ice can fix a position by trilateration from those sources rather than by dead reckoning. The study area is about 639,237 square kilometres across the US Exclusive Economic Zone, the high seas north of Alaska and part of the Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone, coming within 204 kilometres of the Alaska coast at its nearest point. A research cruise of 22 days is planned to begin September 22nd, 2026 aboard R/V Sikuliaq, US Coast Guard Cutter HEALY or another vessel, while the sound sources stay in the water for twelve months. The authorization covers Level B harassment only and states that take by Level A harassment is neither anticipated nor authorized.

The record on this one is shut. NMFS took comment for 30 days after publishing the proposed authorization on July 22nd, 2026 and received three comment letters, all from private citizens, then issued the authorization on September 10th, 2026. There is no open filing path now. The next door is the Year 10 renewal, which the Year 9 proposal already invited comment on inside its own action line, and no renewal notice has published. Anyone who wants standing in Year 10 should watch the Federal Register for a proposed authorization under docket RTID 0648-XF889 or its successor.
JUL 22Proposed authorization published at 91 FR 46055, opening a 30 day comment period
SEP 4Authorization signed by the Director of the NMFS Office of Protected Resources
SEP 10Authorization issued and published at 91 FR 57547
SEP 14Authorization takes effect
SEP 22First research cruise planned to begin, 22 days in September and October
SEP 13 2027Authorization expires, one year being the statutory maximum
Sources · Federal Register via GPO govinfo, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service · Federal Register plain text, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service · Federal Register plain text, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service · Federal Register via GPO govinfo, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
2026-09-21 · Re-verified today against the authorization text. It states that "This authorization is effective from September 14, 2026, through September 13, 2027." The research cruise is described as planned for only 22 days in September and October. Checked and unchanged.
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CLOSED LEGISLATION Decided

Mat-Su bans automated license plate readers

DECIDES · MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH ASSEMBLY

Ordinance Serial No. 26-106 adopts a new borough code chapter, MSB 23.30, whose title states that it prohibits the acquisition, installation and operation of automated license plate reader systems and associated mass surveillance technology. Assemblymember Bernier moved to introduce it on September 1st and to set the public hearing. A motion to adopt carried on September 15th. The borough's legislative record contradicts itself on who moved adoption, its action text naming one member and its structured mover field another, so this record does not name that mover. It is a prohibition rather than a set of conditions, which makes it the opposite instrument to the surveillance rules the neighbouring Anchorage Assembly is weighing. The borough's legislative record carries no vote tally for either motion, only that each one passed.

The Assembly adopted the ordinance on September 15th, so there is no comment room left on this measure. The borough code it creates, MSB 23.30, is the public record of what was decided, and an Assembly member is the route to any change to it.
SEP 1Introduced by Assemblymember Bernier, who also moved to set the public hearing
SEP 15Public hearing at the Assembly meeting, 6 p.m., Assembly Chambers, Palmer
SEP 15Assembly adopts Ordinance Serial No. 26-106
Sources · Matanuska-Susitna Borough · Matanuska-Susitna Borough legislative record
2026-09-23 · Checked against the borough's own legislative record today. Ordinance Serial No. 26-106 passed on September 15th, the same day as its public hearing. The record also shows the introduction on September 1st, moved by Assemblymember Bernier, who set the hearing date at the same time. It CONTRADICTS ITSELF on who moved adoption, its action text naming one member and its structured mover field another, so no mover is named here for that motion. No vote tally is published in the record, so none is printed here.
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INDIRECT LEGISLATION Closed

SB 250, who pays for a data center's power

DECIDES · ALASKA LEGISLATURE (HOUSE COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE HELD IT)

SB 250, introduced by Sen. Loki Tobin on February 18th, would have barred utilities from putting a data center's costs into anyone's rates unless those costs were recovered solely from the data center, and would have required the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to approve each data center contract. The Senate-passed version applied to data centers drawing 15 megawatts of peak demand from an electric utility. The Senate passed it 14 to 5 on May 16th, and the House Community and Regional Affairs Committee heard and held it on May 18th, its last recorded action.

The bill stalled in a House committee before the session ended. Any revival starts over in the next Legislature, where it goes to the legislators you elect on November 3rd.
FEB 18Introduced by Sen. Loki Tobin
MAY 16Senate passes CSSB 250(CRA) on reconsideration, 14 to 5 with one excused
MAY 18House Community and Regional Affairs hears and holds the bill, its last recorded action
Sources · Alaska State Legislature BASIS · Alaska State Legislature, CSSB 250(CRA) bill text · Alaska Beacon, republished by Alaska Public Media
2026-09-24 · Tracked. Read against the Legislature's own bill record and the Senate-passed text. The Senate passed CSSB 250(CRA) 14 to 5 with one excused on May 16th, and House Community and Regional Affairs heard and held it on May 18th, which is the last action on record. The bill is not law. It returned to the news in September when the four candidates for governor set out where they stand on data centers, as reported by James Brooks of the Alaska Beacon, with Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins backing a moratorium until the Legislature can pass a comprehensive regulatory framework.
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INDIRECT DECISION Decided

Petersburg ties on whether to pause data centers

DECIDES · PETERSBURG BOROUGH ASSEMBLY

On September 21st the Petersburg Borough Assembly considered starting a temporary moratorium on data centers, after the borough Planning Commission asked for a year-long freeze on data center applications and permits while local standards are written. The vote tied 3 to 3, so the moratorium process did not start. Assembly Member Scott Newman supported it for protections and local control. Utility Director Steve Harbour said selling that much power to one customer could significantly blunt how much electric rates will increase, and KFSK reports the borough utility has endorsed a small data center proposed by Mazzella Alaska LLC. KFSK gives no megawatt figure for it.

The Assembly has voted and the motion failed on a tie, so nothing is pending. The question can come back only if a member brings it to a future Assembly meeting, where residents can speak during public comment.
SEP 21Assembly ties 3 to 3 and the moratorium process does not start
Sources · KFSK
2026-09-30 · Added. KFSK reported on September 28th that the Assembly tied 3 to 3 on September 21st after 30 minutes of discussion, so the Planning Commission's requested year-long freeze did not move forward. Read today against the KFSK report.
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