What Watt Brief actually reads

Watt Brief is a weekday email of public-record data-center deltas. It is not a magazine, not a comps book, and not a MW ledger. Each paid issue is a list of rows. A row exists because an agency posted something that moved — a queue addition, a permit or rezoning clock, a PUC filing, an 8-K that names power or interconnection, or a posted moratorium.

Identity: source + document ID + event class

We do not invent filings. A row is identified by the issuing source, the document ID that source printed, and an event class. That identity is how we know whether a morning is new. A restated headline is not a change. A trade-press recap of yesterday’s row is not a change. Related clocks sit on the same row instead of becoming a second item.

Event classes are the buckets we watch, listed in full on Sources:

• Load interconnection queues — ERCOT LLI, PJM large-load / IRAS, SPP HILL, and FERC eLibrary dockets in the EL26-67–72 family when they name large load or data centers.
• County permits and rezoning — Loudoun LandMARC and peer boom-county portals.
• PUC and utility docket deltas — state commission interchange filings that name large load or data centers.
• EDGAR 8-Ks — filings that mention data center, power, or interconnection.
• Opposition and moratoria — county ordinances, planning-commission actions, posted pauses.

One fact, one row

Each paid row carries a headline, operator if the record states one, MW if stated or bounded, county/ISO, a source URL, a document ID, and one line on why it matters. We do not add $/kW, lease comps, GPU TCO, or a running MW scoreboard. Those products exist; we do not clone them. Cite them when you need them. The row that pays for the ticket you do not buy is a stated MW plus a county, sitting on an agency page you can open.

Why trade press is late

A press release is a choice. A queue posting, a LandMARC status flip, or a planning-commission packet is a clock. The brief is built for the clock. By the time a recap circulates, the identity is already in the record. We skip empty mornings rather than pad with yesterday’s rows dressed as news. If nothing moved, you get silence — not a digest of last week.

Who it is for

The reader is usually someone who books a site visit, a load study, or a diligence trip before the story is finished:

• Colo and hyperscale business development — queue and county clocks before you fly the team.
• Utility large-load groups — interconnection and PUC deltas that name the load.
• Infrastructure PE — public-record movement without a comps overlay.
• GC and MEP business development — permits and opposition that change when a job is real.

Free stays Friday headlines and two full rows a month. Paid Individual and Professional get the weekday issue with document IDs. Confirm every row on the issuing agency’s copy before you act. The adapters and identity rules live on Sources. Sample format rows on the homepage are marked EXAMPLE — they are not filings.