The Department of Energy Office of Electricity’s Voices of Experience: Data Center Integration (VoE: Data Center) hosted a series of virtual, interactive sessions from March through May 2026. The sessions promoted the sharing of experiences and ideas to help identify solutions for rapidly energizing data centers while maintaining grid affordability, reliability, and security.

Past virtual meetings on the intersection of data centers and the grid are listed below, along with registration links. Each call was targeted at a designated stakeholder group and focused on a specific topic. 

March 26 - Data Centers Experience: What’s Working Well and What Isn’t 

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Data center developers, owners and operators, and consultants

March 31 - Utility Experience: Progress, Pain Points, and Possibilities

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal) and independent system operators or regional transmission organizations (ISOs/RTOs)

April 2 - Members Only: Unique Data Center Challenges of Municipal and Cooperative Utilities

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Municipal and cooperative utilities

April 7 - State Perspectives: Opportunities and Headaches of Data Center Load Growth

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Governor’s offices, state economic development offices, state energy offices, consumer advocates, and utility regulators

April 9 - Growth, Grid, and Bills: The Affordability Implications of Data Centers

• Primary Perspective of Interest: All stakeholders

April 14 - The Power Bill of the Future: Cost Allocation and Ratemaking

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Open only to public utility commissioners and staff

April 15 - Grid Operations: The Operational Realities of Data Center Load

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal), ISOs/RTOs, and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation 

April 21 - Are We Building Enough—or Too Much? Grid Planning and Investments in the Age of Data Centers

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal), ISO/RTOs, and data center owners and operators

April 30 - Ups and Downs… and Mostly Up: Forecasting Data Center Load Growth

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal), ISOs/RTOs, data center owners and operators, and consultants

May 7 - Working Together: Regional Planning and Coordination for Data Centers

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal) and ISOs/RTOs 

May 12 - Fair and Future Ready: Utility Strategies for Cost Allocation and Ratemaking 

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal) and ISOs/RTOs

May 14 - Data Center Interconnection: Anything and Everything!

• Primary Perspective of Interest: Cooperative, investor-owned, municipal utilities, utility regulators, and data center owners and operators

May 19 - Transmission Coordination: What Does It Mean with Data Centers? 

• Primary Perspective of Interest: ISOs/RTOs