Which data centres actually get power.
The Hook Lab follows data centres through the grid queue, from public application to first power, in every major market in the world. All public, all sourced, every week.
Who's connected. Who's waiting. Who's gone.
| Project | Grid | MW | Updated | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stargate AbileneOpenAI / Oracle / Crusoe · Abilene, Texas | ERCOT | 1,200~300 live | 2026-04 | Energising | Epoch AI |
| Microsoft Kemps CreekMicrosoft · Kemps Creek, New South Wales | NEM · NSW | 190 | 2023-06 | Approved | NSW pipeline |
| NEXTDC M3NEXTDC · West Melbourne, Victoria | NEM · VIC | 150planned | 2026-10 | Delayedgrid works suspended | ASX |
| GLP AkishimaGLP · Akishima, Tokyo | TEPCO · Tokyo | 295planned | 2024-07 | Contestedresidents seek to halt it | DCD |
Four real rows. The full tracker, one source per row, from the first release.
Registers, filings, disclosures, reported statements. Every row links to where it came from.
The same columns and statuses in every market, so Texas and Tokyo sit on one page.
New rows and status changes go in every week, with a note on what moved.
When a status changes, the old one stays. The timeline is the product.
Free to read.
Paid to work with.
- Full dataset, with the history of every row
- Alerts the day a status changes
- The time-to-power benchmark, by market, every quarter
- One deep-dive a month
- Charts and CSV you can drop into a deck
- Everything in Pro, for the whole team
- CSV feed and API
- Quarterly note on what it means for you
- Quarterly call
Can AI do power-systems engineering?
An open benchmark. Public questions, public leaderboard, run again every time a major model ships.
A 120 MW load connects at 132 kV through two 80 MVA transformers. The network requires ride-through of a 0.3 pu dip for 400 ms. Which equipment sets the limit, and what evidence would the network accept?
What changed.
One email a week. New rows, status changes, rule changes that matter. Plain language.
Run by one person who reads the filings.
Fedor Kriuk. AI × Energy researcher @ University of Technology Sydney. Ex-CSIRO. Ex-HKUST. Reviewer @ Springer Nature. Speaker @ UN, G20, IEEE. Serial founder.
Kriuk means hook.