Last updated: October 23, 2026 · Figures below are quoted from the linked filings. Requested megawatts are not sale prices.

What interconnection queues mean for landowners

Data center developers are paying premiums for powered land. The public queues explain why power — not a county slogan — is the premium. They do not price your parcel. Indiana is the clearest place to start, because the generation queue, the utility contract, and the campus announcements are three different documents. Ohio and Texas are included because their utilities publish load books a landowner can actually read.

The numbers worth quoting, and only these ways

MISO generation queue, May 8, 2026: about 167 GW and 802 active projects. This is new power plants, not data centers.
AEP Ohio data centers, Feb. 12, 2026: 17,861 MW under contract (5,642 MW signed under the new tariff, plus 12,219 MW signed before it).
ERCOT large-load requests, March 26, 2026: about 410 GW, of which about 87 percent were data centers. A mid-2026 ERCOT note put the stack above 438,000 MW. Requests, not approved service.

Three queues that get mashed together

A generator interconnection queue is a line of proposed power plants. MISO, PJM, and the other RTOs publish those. A large-load queue is a line of customers who want to use power. ERCOT publishes that for sites over 75 MW. A utility contract book, like AEP Ohio’s, is a third thing: projects that have already signed. Landowners get hurt when a broker slides all three into one “megawatts in the queue” sentence.

North Carolina and Georgia do not get a fake ISO number on this page. Duke Energy and Georgia Power are vertically integrated. Their public record, for a landowner, is the campus announcement and the local ordinance. Those live on the Catawba, Richmond, Newton, and Fayette pages.

Indiana: don’t read the MISO queue as buyer demand

Most of Indiana is in MISO. MISO’s May 8, 2026 board materials, filed in a Manitoba proceeding and consistent with the update MISO gave the Missouri PSC for May 18, showed an active generator queue of about 167 GW across 802 projects. The fuel mix on that slide was roughly 39 percent solar, 18 percent storage, 16 percent wind, 14 percent gas, and 13 percent hybrid. The Missouri update also said the queue was down 46 percent from 308 GW in December 2024. Projects withdraw. A queue that shrinks is a normal outcome, not a secret land rush.

The data center record in Indiana is separate. Meta broke ground on February 11, 2026 on a campus of more than $10 billion at the LEAP district in Lebanon, in Boone County. AWS’s 2024 announcement is the New Carlisle campus in St. Joseph County. In the approved IURC order in Cause No. 46322, NIPSCO testimony describes Amazon committing to a demand ramp of up to 2,400 MW by the end of 2032, energization beginning January 1, 2027, at one or more locations in NIPSCO territory. That is a retail contract. It is not MISO’s 167 GW, and it is not spare power for the next farm.

AEP’s Indiana Michigan Power subsidiary, which serves part of northeast Indiana and southwest Michigan, is in PJM rather than MISO. AEP’s September 29, 2026 PJM Load Analysis Subcommittee deck shows cumulative large-load additions for I&M of 1,813 MW in 2027 and 4,330 MW by 2031 on the “existing and planned” table. That utility is not statewide Indiana, and the table is large load, not a data-center-only breakout. LaPorte County is NIPSCO territory with siting rules in progress and no campus this page will invent.

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Ohio: contracted load is the landowner number

AEP Ohio sits in PJM and serves the New Albany corridor in Licking County. On February 13, 2026 the utility said that as of February 12 it had 5,642 MW of data center contracts signed under its data center tariff, plus 12,219 MW signed before the tariff, for 17,861 MW of contracted projects scheduled through 2035. It put all-customer peak demand at about 8,000 to 10,500 MW. The tariff, effective July 23, 2025, makes new load of 25 MW and up pay for a study and then sign a letter of agreement and a service agreement. Speculative requests that would not sign dropped out. That is the point of the tariff.

AEP’s September 29, 2026 PJM deck is a later, different cut: cumulative large-load additions for AEP Ohio of 4,980 MW in 2027, 15,574 MW in 2031, and 17,116 MW “ultimate,” limited to load with a signed agreement under the methodology AEP described. Do not add it to 17,861. Google, Meta, and Amazon’s own Licking County announcements are on the county page. They are buildings and stated investment. They are not the residual of AEP’s contract book.

Texas: the request stack is the story, and the warning

ERCOT told the Texas Senate on April 1, 2026 that, as of March 26, it was tracking about 410 GW of large loads seeking interconnection, about 87 percent of them data centers. An April 13 staff update said the same 410 GW figure and noted 198 new large-load requests in the first quarter of 2026. ERCOT’s own explainer, discussing the batch process the PUCT approved on June 18, 2026, said that as of mid-2026 the queue was more than 438,000 MW, nearly 90 percent data centers. ERCOT’s record peak, cited in that explainer, is 85,508 MW on August 10, 2023.

The September 14–15, 2026 Batch Zero update is the correction. ERCOT had conditionally classed 204 projects (66.4 GW) as base load and 158 projects (127.9 GW) as studied load. It also said energization of new large-load data centers and crypto facilities was paused pending an eligibility audit, with a verification report due to the commission by December 10, 2026. A conditional class is not a construction date. A paused energization is the opposite of “the grid will take my acres.”

The tighter local number is Oncor’s. Its April 29, 2025 RPG deck for southern Dallas–Fort Worth cited 4,064 MW of large loads that already had an interconnection agreement or equivalent forward motion, across a list of counties that includes Ellis County and does not include Johnson County. Use 4,064 MW only with that sentence attached. The Texas overview keeps the zoning and water detail.

What this means if you own the land

1.A queue tells you developers are competing for power in that utility territory. It does not tell you they will buy your parcel.
2.Contracted megawatts (AEP Ohio, the NIPSCO order) are stronger evidence than requested megawatts (ERCOT’s 410 GW). Neither is a residual you can sell.
3.Generator queues (MISO’s 167 GW) mostly describe solar, storage, wind, and gas trying to connect. New generation can help a region. It is not a data center tenant.
4.The landowner facts that survive diligence are still acreage, sale or lease, and a substation or line you can point to. Those are the first step of the intake.

Fact-check before this is used in a pitch

• Do not add AEP Ohio’s February 12, 2026 total (17,861 MW) to the September 29, 2026 PJM table.
• Do not call I&M’s 4,330 MW “Indiana data center demand.” The deck does not break out data centers versus other large load, and the utility serves Michigan too.
• Do not call MISO’s 167 GW a data center queue.
• ERCOT’s 410 GW (March 26, 2026) and “more than 438,000 MW” (mid-2026 explainer) are two dates. Batch Zero’s 66.4 GW and 127.9 GW were conditional as of the September 2026 update, and energization of new large-load data centers was paused.
• The NIPSCO 2,400 MW ramp is one or more locations in that territory, not a single parcel.
• Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia are omitted from the statistical lead because this page does not have an equivalent public load-queue total it is willing to print.

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A queue position is not an offer on a parcel. If you own land in a state where the public record shows data-center load or a hyperscale campus, start with the state or county page, then submit.