Questions

1. Enstar's Cook Inlet gas storage plan (Kenai Loop Pool) by NOV 13

   Anyone may comment on the Division of Oil and Gas's preliminary written finding for the Kenai Loop storage lease until 5 p.m. on November 13th, per the state's public notice. The RCA prudency question stays with the commission, a governor-appointed, legislature-confirmed body whose dockets the public reaches through formal comment and intervention.

   Comment on the record

2. DeepGreen's underwater data center in Cook Inlet by NOV 2

   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.

   Comment on the record

3. The FCC asks whether AI should help run the Universal Service Fund by OCT 30

   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.

   Comment on the record

No single body does, which is most of why this is hard to follow. Across the 37 tracked decisions the deciders are these.

1. Anchorage Assembly

   Anchorage data-center zoning ordinance AO 2026-27 · Anchorage's surveillance rules for its police crime center

2. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

   The Dixon Glacier diversion into Bradley Lake · DeepGreen's underwater data center in Cook Inlet

3. Administration for Native Americans, HHS Administration for Children and Families

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

4. Alaska DNR, Commissioner John Crowther

   AIDEA's free state land for a Mat-Su data center park

5. Alaska DNR, Division of Oil and Gas

   STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease

6. Alaska Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles

   DMV asks vendors about automated compliance for commercial licenses

7. Alaska Department of Administration, Office of Procurement and Property Management

   Alaska's statewide speech-to-text contract

8. Alaska Legislature (House Community and Regional Affairs Committee held it)

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

9. Alaska Legislature (House Energy Committee)

   HB 259, state utility standards for large data centers

10. Alaska Legislature and the Alaska congressional delegation

    Fairbanks asks Juneau and Congress to pause data centers

11. Alaska Legislature, third special session

    The AKLNG gas line tax bill

12. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission applies; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decides

    Alaska's bid to run its own carbon storage permits

13. Copper Valley Electric Association board

    Copper Valley Electric's shelved nuclear reactor study

14. Department of the Air Force with Defense Logistics Agency Energy, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the license

    The Air Force nuclear microreactor at Eielson

15. Department of the Air Force, Enhanced Use Lease program

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

16. Department of the Army, running its solicitation through the Defense Innovation Unit

    The Army's Janus microreactor program at Fort Wainwright

17. Each Alaska electric utility board, including the Railbelt cooperatives

    The AI ratepayer pledge, and which Alaska utilities have signed it

18. Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, after a Planning Commission recommendation

    Fairbanks proposes its own pause on large data center permits

19. Federal Communications Commission

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

20. Golden Valley Electric Association board of directors

    GVEA's $80 million turbine decision

21. Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly

    Kenai Peninsula Borough writes a weather modification code

22. Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education

    The Kenai Peninsula school district's AI rulebook

23. Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly

    Mat-Su bans automated license plate readers

24. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources

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

25. North Slope Borough mayor and Assembly

    North Slope Power, the borough's gas plant for AI data centers

26. Petersburg Borough Assembly

    Petersburg ties on whether to pause data centers

27. Regulatory Commission of Alaska (prudency); Alaska DNR (storage lease and technical determination)

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

28. The President, carried out by the Council on Environmental Quality and the Interior, Energy and Defense departments

    The executive order that lets big data centers skip the usual federal review

29. U.S. Department of Energy

    Which grid equipment gets restricted, and the reason given is AI

30. U.S. Department of Energy made the selection; the plant itself needs state and federal permits nobody has applied for yet

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

31. U.S. Department of Energy, with the Alaska Energy Authority

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

32. U.S. Department of Transportation, Build America Bureau

    Renting the highway shoulder to power and fiber, with data centers named as the draw

33. U.S. House of Representatives, then the Senate and the President, and after that every state regulatory authority including the Regulatory Commission of Alaska

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

34. University of Alaska Board of Regents

    The University of Alaska's AI policy

35. University of Alaska Land Management signed the lease; any lease of the borough's own port land would need the Mat-Su Borough Assembly

    The University of Alaska's 829 acres at Port MacKenzie, leased to the coal plant's campus

17 of the tracked decisions would enable AI or cloud data centers, on state land, federal land, in utility supply or in statute. These are decisions in progress, not finished projects.

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

   Pending decision · Department of the Air Force, Enhanced Use Lease program

2. AIDEA's free state land for a Mat-Su data center park

   Pending decision · Alaska DNR, Commissioner John Crowther

3. Anchorage data-center zoning ordinance AO 2026-27

   Decided · Anchorage Assembly

4. HB 259, state utility standards for large data centers

   Closed · Alaska Legislature (House Energy Committee)

5. The AI ratepayer pledge, and which Alaska utilities have signed it

   Watching · Each Alaska electric utility board, including the Railbelt cooperatives

6. The executive order that lets big data centers skip the usual federal review

   Watching · The President, carried out by the Council on Environmental Quality and the Interior, Energy and Defense departments

7. The University of Alaska's 829 acres at Port MacKenzie, leased to the coal plant's campus

   Decided · University of Alaska Land Management signed the lease; any lease of the borough's own port land would need the Mat-Su Borough Assembly

8. DeepGreen's underwater data center in Cook Inlet

   Open for comment · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

9. Fairbanks asks Juneau and Congress to pause data centers

   Pending decision · Alaska Legislature and the Alaska congressional delegation

10. Fairbanks proposes its own pause on large data center permits

    Pending decision · Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, after a Planning Commission recommendation

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

    Pending decision · U.S. House of Representatives, then the Senate and the President, and after that every state regulatory authority including the Regulatory Commission of Alaska

12. Which grid equipment gets restricted, and the reason given is AI

    Pending decision · U.S. Department of Energy

13. Renting the highway shoulder to power and fiber, with data centers named as the draw

    Pending decision · U.S. Department of Transportation, Build America Bureau

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

    Closed · Alaska Legislature (House Community and Regional Affairs Committee held it)

15. Petersburg ties on whether to pause data centers

    Decided · Petersburg Borough Assembly

16. North Slope Power, the borough's gas plant for AI data centers

    Watching · North Slope Borough mayor and Assembly

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

    Pending decision · U.S. Department of Energy, with the Alaska Energy Authority

The tracked decisions sit at these places. The docket map shows them against the transmission grid, the generating fleet and the pipeline.

1. Anchorage

2. Beluga to Healy

3. Bradley Lake, Kenai Peninsula

4. Cook Inlet, west of Nikiski

5. Cordova, Prince William Sound

6. Dalton Highway, about 26 mi south of Deadhorse

7. Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks North Star Borough

8. Fairbanks

9. Fairbanks North Star Borough

10. Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks

11. Glennallen, Copper River Basin

12. JBER, Eielson AFB, Clear SFS

13. Juneau

14. Kenai Loop Pool, Cook Inlet near Kenai

15. North of Houston, Mat-Su Borough

16. Palmer

17. Petersburg

18. Port MacKenzie, Mat-Su Borough

19. Soldotna

20. Soldotna, Kenai Peninsula Borough

21. Susitna River watershed, west of Skwentna

22. University of Alaska System, Fairbanks

23. near Prudhoe Bay

Every fact carries the document it was checked against. 37 decisions rest on 223 source documents, with 673 dated change notes recording how each one moved, and a daily routine re-fetches a primary source whenever a date comes near. Nothing enters on rumour, and what can't be verified is dropped rather than published softly. It is open data under CC BY 4.0. See the data for the schema and the license, and the source archive for every document.