No less than the White House is pushing AI companies to ​“build, bring, or buy new power supply.” Developer Eolian announced on Wednesday that it’s broken ground on its Flint Grid battery project. With 1 gigawatt-hour of storage capacity, this battery won’t just be the biggest on the 13-state PJM market; it’ll be the biggest battery east of the Mississippi. However, now that those areas face tremendous AI data center growth, they could use the instantaneous power that massive batteries provide. “This isn’t just some random 200 megawatts,” Zubaty said.