A group of Maryland property owners are urging the Supreme Court to get involved in a property rights fight over the potential construction of power lines amid a data center boom in the region.

Data center development and increased energy production to support those data centers have been hot-button issues across the country in recent years, including in Maryland and neighboring Virginia. The fight between a coalition of Maryland landowners and developer PSEG Renewable Transmission deals with whether a lower federal court followed state law in allowing the developer to enter the landowners’ property to survey and study the land as they explore potentially building a 67-mile-long transmission line.

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