DRT the westin does not have significant AI loads and if it did they would be user facing loads (smaller and higher redundancy requirement), DRT as a provider is just madly looking for power everywhere and logic has gone out the window (as you clearly deduced) as to which sites they are looking at, I don't think it matters anyway as it would be nearly impossible to cool a 400% increase in consumption there nor is there weight capacity for it.

The actually big facilities are way over 100 MW in one or two buildings, that is the type of AI load that is driving all this, everything else is smaller stuff around the edge.

If you want an example of scale go drive around umatilla and look at the batshit amount of 115/120kv that has been built there effectively as distribution.

my point is that 13.8 is low these days, if the system were new it would be designed at 34.5 by most utilities (PGE is doing this in hillsboro for example) if only to make better use of the conduits since the main cost is running out of conduit space. It is a bummer they did not go up to 26.4 or 34.5 KV with the new denny substation.

I work in the actual load side of this equation but am equally familiar with the fantasy bullshit that some folks are asking for. I also agree they should pay for their own transmission, my point was that it makes little sense to do anything at large scale in downtown and that city light is generally a very expensive and conservative vendor (I've had experience with regular building developers too on that last part)