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Task Force

The peer reference for large-load interconnection.

As data-center demand surges, the Task Force is the room where utilities compare notes on interconnection, contracting, policy, and operating practice, and build a benchmarking reference guide the whole membership can use.

What it is

Data-center load is arriving faster than the playbook for serving it. A single hyperscale request can rival a mid-size city, and utilities are negotiating interconnection, contracts, and policy on terms that did not exist a few years ago.

The Data Center Task Force is the room where members compare notes on all of it, from interconnection and contracting to the operating realities. The deliverable is a benchmarking reference guide built by peers, meant to be put to work rather than shelved.

At a glance

Data Center Task Force

TypeTask force
Co-leadsRob Locke (Dominion) and Jacob Tetlow (APS)
DeliverableA peer benchmarking reference guide
StatusKickoff June 15, 2026
Leadership

Co-leads.

Rob Locke
Co-lead

Rob Locke

Senior Vice President, Electric Distribution
Dominion Energy
Jacob Tetlow
Co-lead

Jacob Tetlow

Executive Vice President, Operations
Arizona Public Service
What the Task Force works

Serving the load, with peers who are already doing it.

Contracting

Interconnection and contracting

How members structure large-load contracts, interconnection, and the policy around them.

Operations

Operating practice

The operational realities of serving hyperscale load, shared between the utilities living them now.

Deliverable

A benchmarking reference guide

The Task Force's output: a peer reference utilities can use, not a white paper that sits on a shelf.

Connected work

Where it connects.

Put your team inside the work.

One utility membership opens the Data Center Task Force and every other committee and program to your whole organization.

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