(Bloomberg) — Dominion Vitality expects the time it takes to attach giant information facilities to the electrical grid to extend by one to a few years amid a surge in requests, bringing the entire wait time to so long as seven years.

The longer wait time applies solely to giant information facilities that want greater than 100 MW of electrical energy and gained’t have an effect on initiatives which have already been evaluated, based on a letter the corporate’s transmission arm despatched to its regulated utility in addition to co-ops and native utilities. Virtually all masses that large in Dominion’s territory are information facilities. 

Dominion is the electrical utility in northern Virginia’s so-called ‘Data Center Alley’, the world’s largest hub for the services.

Utilities throughout the US are dealing with the largest demand soar in a technology, with the electrical grid strained by the info facilities that run AI computing, new factories, and the electrification of all the things from vehicles to residence heating.

The additional 12 months to three-year wait comes on prime of the three to 4 years the method has beforehand taken, a Dominion consultant stated Thursday. Which means the await energy will now be roughly 4 to seven years.