The Alaska AI Docket

2026-09-12 · Checked again, and one thing is new. All three documents sit on the consent agenda of the September 14th, 2026 regular business meeting rather than on the discussion calendar. BP 1114 Communication Using Electronic Media is item 10146, second reading and action. BP 5131.9 Academic Honesty is item 10147, second reading and action. AR 5131.9 Academic Honesty is item 10145, first reading and action. A consent agenda is adopted in a single motion, so unless a board member asks for an item to be pulled, the district's artificial intelligence rules are adopted without separate debate. Two days out.

2026-09-12 · Checked and unchanged. The spending is approved and the rules are not. AO-2026-108 and the September 15th, 2026 testimony date still rest on one outlet, the Must Read Alaska opinion piece of September 7th, 2026, because the municipality's own agenda system refuses an automated request and the ordinance text can't be read anywhere else. Three days out. Anyone planning to testify should confirm the item is on the published agenda first, and writing to an Assembly member remains the surer route.

2026-09-09 · Checked. Grants.gov shows the Economic Advancement Grants for Local Empowerment opportunity, HHS-2026-ACF-ANA-NEG-0120, closed on August 27th, 2026 with no award announced and no intent to award posted, against an award ceiling of $1,000,000 and about 31 expected awards. That is the same closing date the AI3 Action Institute posting carries. Until an award is published nothing shows who applied to either, and both postings are archived on September 26th, 2026, seventeen days out.

2026-09-09 · Checked and unchanged. Resolution 2026-25 was adopted on August 27th, 2026 and the moratorium request is still the one item standing on both the state and the federal half of the borough's 25 priorities. Mayor Grier Hopkins told Alaska's News Source the borough heard the community loud and clear, and that residents want it worked out how data centers can best be regulated and where, if anywhere, they should go in the borough. The state half can't be taken up before the 35th Alaska Legislature convenes on January 19th, 2027.

2026-09-11 · Checked and unchanged against KUAC's account of the August 25th, 2026 board meeting. The 4 to 3 vote stands, with Rick Solie, Brad Swope, Krista Zappone and John Sloan in favour and Dave Messier, Gary Newman and Phil Wight opposed. Chief executive Travis Million said the co-op would return to the board if the unit falls through or the price goes through the roof, which puts the actual purchase decision still ahead. Board chair Messier said the matter would be considered further at the following month's meeting. No date for that has been published, so there is still no scheduled decision on the $80 million purchase.

2026-09-11 · Checked and unchanged. Nothing new has been posted since the August rulings. The record still runs from the Regulatory Commission of Alaska's July order denying Enstar an advance determination of decisional prudence for the Kenai Loop Pool project, through Enstar's 31 page petition for reconsideration filed July 23rd, 2026, to the denial of that petition in August. Enstar's own description of the reservoir, in president John Sims's words, is that it is "almost perfect for what Enstar views as short term and long term needs". The estimated $240 million cost would be the largest single capital investment in the utility's history, and Southcentral goes into this heating season without the storage it would have added.

2026-09-11 · Re-read directly off the White House page today, enumerating the list rather than the summary counts. The pledge now carries 317 signatories, up from the 281 read here on July 26th, 2026. The governors addendum still stands at 23 signatures, Governor Mike Dunleavy among them. Cordova Electric Cooperative remains the only Alaska entity on the list, and no other Alaska utility appears, with Chugach Electric, Golden Valley Electric, Matanuska Electric and Homer Electric all absent. The pledge is still voluntary. Its own language is that companies voluntarily negotiate new, separate rate structures with their utilities and state governments, which is a commitment to bargain rather than a rule about who pays. The growing count is recorded here in the summary rather than as a dated event, because a reading is an observation and not something a reader can act on.

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.

2026-09-06 · Checked and unchanged. The cooperative's project page still carries the August 9th, 2023 release headed that the micro modular nuclear reactor project was tabled indefinitely, with the completed pre feasibility study and the 2023 public meeting materials posted beside it. Nothing newer has been added.