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Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of technology facilities is putting on the electric grid.

Amazon lodged a complaint last week with the Public Utility Commission of Oregon alleging that Portland-based PacifiCorp breached obligations that date back to 2021 to provide sufficient power for the projects. Amazon said the company provided insufficient power for one data campus, no power for a second campus and “has refused to even complete its own standard contracting process for the third and fourth Data Center Campuses.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04...

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Maybe this reads as a negative, but to me it looks marginally positive. It necessarily highlights to the regulators another consequence of their strict and punitive approach to managing wildfire risk. If the power shuts down more often and the provider cannot make a profit, the state will not get data centers. One of the tradeoffs is therefore between reduced wildfire risk and a perhaps degree of deindustrialization, or at least a slowing of investment in the region. Receiving pushback from the utility might be dismissed as self-interest. Getting the same from customers strikes me as more difficult to dismiss.

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