The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Board of Directors on August 20, 2026 approved a new wholesale rate class built specifically for data centers, part of a package that also adopted the utility’s 2026 Integrated Resource Plan and a fiscal 2027 budget carrying more than $13 billion in planned generation and transmission spending through FY29. The actions, taken at the board’s quarterly meeting in Memphis and detailed in TVA’s announcement, make the nation’s largest public power supplier one of the…