Reports from Gotrade and Crain's Cleveland Business warn that surging AI data center load growth is straining PJM Interconnection, the grid operator serving 65 million people across 13 states and the District of Columbia. Analysts say the pace of new interconnection requests from data centers is outpacing PJM's capacity planning processes, raising concerns about reliability and potential structural changes to how the grid is managed. Some observers have raised the possibility that PJM's footprint could be reorganized if load imbalances become unmanageable. PJM has already moved to accelerate interconnection reviews, and further rule changes are under discussion.