Regulatory Or Tariff FrameworkPS-0008

AEP Ohio data-center customer cohort

PUCO order and tariff framework

Framework status with scoped C9/C10 only; participant states unknownTariff-defined customer cohort

Executive evidence ceiling

What a decision maker may safely take from this record

Permitted reading

An applicable tariff, service category, or regulatory pathway exists for the stated scope. PUCO order and tariff framework

Not established

Customer participation, executed agreement, funded upgrades, deliverability, construction, energized power, operation, or economic capacity.

Owner attention

Customer identities, project states, full effective terms

Geography
Ohio
Object subtype
Tariff Defined Customer Framework
AI connection
Data-center tariff; AI share not established
Recorded figure
See effective tariff threshold/terms in Pass 04
Unit basis
Tariff applicability, not capacity realization
Countable operating capacity
NO

Conversion-chain position

C0–C21, without implied progression

Handling modeFRAMEWORK SCOPED

Explicitly represented in this record Not established by this record

  1. C0–C6

    Entry and permission

    1. C0 Concept or rumor
    2. C1 Public announcement
    3. C2 Site identified
    4. C3 Land option or negotiation
    5. C4 Land controlled
    6. C5 Zoning or land-use application
    7. C6 Zoning or land-use approval

  2. C7–C10

    Service-model fork

    1. C7 Utility service or interconnection request
    2. C8 Study or review accepted
    3. C9 Tariff or service pathway identified
    4. C10 Agreement executed or obligation recorded

  3. C11–C17

    Build and operation

    1. C11 Network, generation, or facility upgrades funded
    2. C12 Construction started
    3. C13 Major electrical and cooling equipment delivered
    4. C14 Grid or onsite supply energized
    5. C15 Facility commissioned
    6. C16 IT capacity installed
    7. C17 Compute cluster operating

  4. C18–C20

    Dark Zone

    1. C18 Contracted customer use observed
    2. C19 Utilization or revenue effect observed
    3. C20 Sustained economic compute capacity

  5. C21

    Changed status

    1. C21 Delayed, cancelled, downsized, superseded, or repurposed

Recorded position: Framework status with scoped C9/C10 only; participant states unknown

PUCO order and tariff framework

Signature model · C7–C10

One state vocabulary, five non-transferable service pathways

Each row requires its own authority, instrument, scope and evidence. A state or capacity measure cannot be borrowed from another row.

  1. R

    Retail large-load service

    Utility · state commission

    1. C7

      Service request

    2. C8

      Accepted utility review

    3. C9

      Tariff or service class

    4. C10

      Executed service obligation

  2. T

    Transmission service

    Transmission provider · RTO/ISO · FERC

    1. C7

      Transmission request

    2. C8

      Accepted system study

    3. C9

      Transmission tariff path

    4. C10

      Executed service obligation

  3. G

    Generator interconnection

    Interconnecting utility · RTO/ISO

    1. C7

      Interconnection request

    2. C8

      Accepted study stage

    3. C9

      Interconnection tariff path

    4. C10

      Executed agreement or obligation

  4. C

    Co-location

    Facility owner · utility · relevant regulator

    1. C7

      Arrangement request

    2. C8

      Technical or regulatory review

    3. C9

      Applicable co-location path

    4. C10

      Executed facility-specific obligation

  5. B

    Behind the meter

    Site owner · utility · local/state authority

    1. C7

      On-site arrangement request

    2. C8

      Engineering or compliance review

    3. C9

      Ownership and service path

    4. C10

      Executed on-site obligations

Reading rule: C7–C10 records process evidence, not inevitable progression. Exact procedures vary by jurisdiction and service model; C10 still does not establish physical delivery or operating load.

State boundary

Scope-specific assertions

C9Tariff or service pathway identifiedTariff-defined customer cohort

What this establishes

An applicable tariff, service category, or regulatory pathway exists for the stated scope.

What this does not prove

Customer participation, executed agreement, funded upgrades, deliverability, construction, energized power, operation, or economic capacity.

Four-register control

Figures stay in the register that produced them

No cross-register conversion is performed without an explicit source-stated bridge.

  1. R01Load

    Not normalized

    See effective tariff threshold/terms in Pass 04 is retained as a non-normalized or non-load figure; no MW conversion is performed.

    No load quantity is imputed from money, supply, accelerator count or project state.

  2. R02Supply

    No bridge inferred

    No supply-register quantity is normalized for this record.

    Project state is not treated as proof of deliverable, firm or operating supply.

  3. R03Money

    No bridge inferred

    No separate money-register metric is normalized for this record.

    Capex, contract value, backlog, RPO, revenue and utilization are not converted into capacity or operating state.

  4. R04AI-share

    Not established

    Data-center tariff; AI share not established

    Total data-center, campus or portfolio measures remain broader than AI unless the source provides an explicit AI-share boundary.

Aggregation policy: Not summable in this edition. No total, rank or realization percentage is generated.

AI-share boundary

Broader infrastructure does not become AI-only by implication

Data-center tariff; AI share not established

01

Broader measured scope

Campus, data-center, portfolio, utility, accelerator or financial quantity.

Explicit source bridge

Named AI workload or customer scope · denominator · period · allocation method.

02

AI-attributable subset

Reportable only to the extent directly defined by the source.

AI-share not established

Without the bridge, retain the broader label and stop the attribution.

Control rule: GPU count, company narrative, total campus MW or portfolio capex does not supply an AI-share denominator on its own.

Atomic evidence stack

Claims retain their own ceiling, locator and sources

0 linked claims at the current cutoff.

No atomic claim is linked to this tracker row. Do not strengthen the row from surrounding context.

Record stewardship

What is known, missing and capable of changing the record

Contrary evidenceNo linked test at cutoff

Absence of a linked item is not proof that contrary evidence does not exist.

Negative findingsNo linked negative finding

Continue to treat unknown information as unknown, not zero.

Reopen triggers1 active rule

A qualifying evidence delta requires review and rebuild.

What could change this record

  • OIR-0007 · Ohio appeal resolves, or Ohio/Georgia/Virginia tariffs/contracts are modified, stayed, superseded, or implemented through new sheets/orders.

    Required update: Retrieve final holdings/effective sheets; record customer obligations, conditions, supersession, and legal finality.

Source register

Trace the public record

3 linked sources; rights and locators remain attached.

Source records

  1. SRC-0041 — Data Centers — Ohio PUCO Resource Page

    Public Utilities Commission of Ohio · 2025-07-09 · Tier A-minus

    Locator: Case links and tariff resources

    PUBLIC OFFICIAL RECORD — CITE/SUMMARIZE

  2. SRC-0042 — PUCO Orders AEP Ohio to Create Data Center-Specific Tariff

    Public Utilities Commission of Ohio · 2025-07-09 · Tier A-minus

    Locator: Case 24-508-EL-ATA; official summary

    PUBLIC OFFICIAL RECORD — CITE/SUMMARIZE

  3. SRC-0044 — Merit Brief, Supreme Court of Ohio Case 2025-1458

    Supreme Court of Ohio / appellant · 2026-02-02 · Tier A

    Locator: Case 2025-1458; appellant merit brief; docket status

    PUBLIC OFFICIAL RECORD — CITE/SUMMARIZE