What Tapestry Can and Cannot Tell a Data Center Investor

Tapestry is a current project at X, Alphabet's research organization. X describes it as a platform for grid planning and operations. The project is relevant to infrastructure diligence, but it does not replace utility evidence for a specific site.

What the public record establishes

X says Tapestry is building a unified grid model and planning tools. PJM announced a multiyear collaboration with Google and Tapestry in April 2025 to improve the process for connecting new generation resources. In April 2026, PJM said HyperQ, a Tapestry tool, was helping it review large volumes of generation application data.

• X project description
• PJM collaboration announcement
• PJM's April 2026 HyperQ update

Generation interconnection is not load service

The PJM collaboration concerns applications to connect generation. A data center asks a utility to serve load. Those processes can affect each other, but a faster generation study does not prove that a specific data center can receive power by a target date.

What a site review still needs

• The serving utility and applicable tariff
• The requested, studied, contracted, and energized load
• Executed agreements and dated study milestones
• Required transmission, substation, and distribution upgrades
• Cost allocation, deposits, guarantees, and delay remedies
• Operating limits, curtailment terms, and backup design

Use planning tools as one source

Better grid models can improve planning work. For an investment decision, retain the model date, scope, assumptions, and operator that produced the result. Then reconcile the result with the utility's signed obligations for the site.