Questions

1. AIDEA's free state land for a Mat-Su data center park by SEP 14

   The comment room is open and a second meeting is still ahead. DNR noticed public meetings on Zoom for August 27th, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. and September 2nd, 2026 at 11:30 a.m., both informational only, with no comment taken during the sessions. Written comment on ADL 234762 runs to 5 p.m. Monday, September 14th, 2026, and the division's notice ties appeal standing on the Final Finding and Decision to having filed timely written comment during the window. DNR says more than 2,000 written comments have arrived so far. Comments go to Dan Jenkins at the Division of Mining, Land and Water, 550 W. 7th Ave. Suite 1050, Anchorage. Houston's city council has asked AIDEA to a September meeting for which no date is set.

   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 SEP 30

   Anyone may file. Comments are due on or before September 30th, 2026 and reply comments on or before October 30th, 2026, 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 25 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 Energy Committee)

   HB 259, state utility standards for large data centers

9. Alaska Legislature and the Alaska congressional delegation

   Fairbanks asks Juneau and Congress to pause data centers

10. Alaska Legislature, third special session

    The AKLNG gas line tax bill

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

    Alaska's bid to run its own carbon storage permits

12. Copper Valley Electric Association board

    Copper Valley Electric's shelved nuclear reactor study

13. 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

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

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

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

    The Army's Janus microreactor program at Fort Wainwright

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

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

17. Federal Communications Commission

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

18. Golden Valley Electric Association board of directors

    GVEA's $80 million turbine decision

19. Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education

    The Kenai Peninsula school district's AI rulebook

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

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

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

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

22. 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

23. 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

8 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

   Open for comment · 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. DeepGreen's underwater data center in Cook Inlet

   Open for comment · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

8. Fairbanks asks Juneau and Congress to pause data centers

   Pending decision · Alaska Legislature and the Alaska congressional delegation

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. Bradley Lake, Kenai Peninsula

3. Cook Inlet, west of Nikiski

4. Cordova, Prince William Sound

5. Dalton Highway, about 26 mi south of Deadhorse

6. Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks North Star Borough

7. Fairbanks

8. Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks

9. Glennallen, Copper River Basin

10. JBER, Eielson AFB, Clear SFS

11. Juneau

12. Kenai Loop Pool, Cook Inlet near Kenai

13. North of Houston, Mat-Su Borough

14. Soldotna, Kenai Peninsula Borough

15. Susitna River watershed, west of Skwentna

Every fact carries the document it was checked against. 25 decisions rest on 122 source documents, with 304 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.