The AI Compute Race Glossary Docket

Docket

What does “Docket” mean?

Docket

The public case file of a regulator or a court. Chapter 2.

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Sources that use it

  • American Transmission Company LLC and ATC Management Inc., “Application for PSCW Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and WDNR Utility Permit, Ozaukee County Distribution Interconnection Project,” Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Docket No. 137-CE-229, PSC REF 610442, with the cover letter dated 14 September 2026, PSC REF 610441, and the Commission’s docket opening memorandum of 24 September 2026, PSC REF 612628 (the transmission owner’s application for a certificate to build the lines and substations that would serve Wisconsin Electric Power Company’s “end-use customer, Oracle America Cloud Services LLC … at the Lighthouse data center in Port Washington,” p. 1; “the load interconnection request seeks the full 1.3 GW of load at 345 kV, for 24/7/365, uninterrupted electric service,” p. 44; construction “is scheduled to begin immediately after receipt of the certificate and permit requested herein” and to be completed “approximately 17 months later,” p. 2; the cover letter says the application follows the Commission’s decision “to revoke the completeness determination for the Project in Docket 137-CE-221,” by a final order of 10 September 2026; the memorandum records the docket’s creation and that the Commission “begins CPCN review” when a new application is submitted; read in the public application, its cover letter and the memorandum, with the docket’s listing as served, which held no order when read). In the Sources
  • Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War, No. 26-2011 (9th Cir.), order of 27 April 2026 staying the government’s interlocutory appeal pending the D.C. Circuit’s decision in No. 26-1049 (Filing 17: “The unopposed motion (Docket Entry No. 13) to stay appellate proceedings is granted”; Filing 13 of 22 April 2026, “MOTION to Stay Proceedings in this Court filed by Appellant United States Department of War” and the other appellants). In the Sources
  • Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce, "Revision to License Review Policy for Advanced Computing Commodities," final rule, 91 FR 1684–1689, with the Department of Commerce's press release of 13 January 2026, "Department of Commerce Revises License Review Policy for Semiconductors Exported to China" (Federal Register Volume 91, Number 10, Thursday 15 January 2026; FR Doc 2026-00789; Docket No. 260112-0028; RIN 0694-AK43), effective 15 January 2026; issued and filed for public inspection 13 January 2026 (a case-by-case license review policy for exports to China or Macau of commodities "with a TPP … less than 21,000, and a `total DRAM bandwidth' … less than 6,500 GB/s" — both ceilings — "such as the NVIDIA H200 or AMD MI325X"; the applicant must show that "the aggregate TPP of ``advanced-node integrate circuits'' exported to China or Macau will be no more than 50 percent of the aggregate TPP shipped to customers in the United States for end-use in the United States for the same advanced computing commodities from when such circuits started shipping to commercial U.S. customers … to the time of the license application" (supplement no. 2 to part 748, paragraph (dd)(1)(iii), the rule's only "50 percent"); third-party testing by a lab headquartered in the United States, the testing in the United States, of every chip or "a representative sampling of a batch"; the release, headed "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | January 13, 2026": "Today the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a rule revising its licensing policy for semiconductor exports to China" and "The rule is effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register" — two documents and two dates, the release of 13 January and the rule published and effective on 15 January). In the Sources
  • Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce, “Notice of Request for Public Comments on Risks in the Semiconductor Supply Chain,” 86 FR 53031, 24 September 2021 (the September 2021 data request, Docket No. 210915-0189, comments due 8 November 2021; asks each firm to “list each product’s typical and current inventory (in days),” to “identify those with the largest order backlog,” and to “List each product’s top three current customers and the estimated percentage of that product’s sales accounted for by each customer”; the earlier notice 86 FR 14308 of 15 March 2021 is the 100-day review request, not this one; its second set of questions “for intermediate users and end users of semiconductor products or integrated circuits,” on their purchases, monthly orders, lead times and inventory) In the Sources
  • Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy, letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission directing a rulemaking on the interconnection of large loads under section 403 of the Department of Energy Organization Act, 23 October 2025 (“final action (no later than April 30, 2026)”; the date sits in the letter’s closing courtesy, “I look forward to your consideration and final action (no later than April 30, 2026)”, not in a directive clause; the advance notice of proposed rulemaking it directs: “large loads are defined as greater than 20 MW”, consistent with how the Commission has defined large generation resources), FERC Docket No. RM26-4-000, eLibrary accession 20251027-4001. In the Sources

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How to cite this page

Dryburgh, Lee S. “Docket.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/docket (accessed 2026-11-01).

BibTeX

@misc{dryburgh-docket-2026,
  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Docket}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/docket},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}

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