Data centers are placing unprecedented demands on the U.S. electricity system. This is prompting Congress and a growing number of states to confront a sensitive question: Who should pay for the power plants, substations, and transmission lines needed to serve them?

You might expect a longtime environmentalist like former Vice President Al Gore to be concerned predominantly with the resources that AI data centers consume—and to be sure, he is. But in a recent interview with TechCrunch,

A new coalition of tech giants aims to speed AI data center grid connections in exchange for more flexibility.

A county in the heart of northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley advanced a measure that would pause the review of new data centers and substation applications for up to 12 months as a wave of similar such suspensions sweeps the country.

Land deeded for a future public park in 1999 is now slated to become an artificial intelligence data center, prompting an investigation by the Texas attorney general.

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Under what the Public Utility Commission calls the most likely scenario,there should be enough energy to meet demand. Outages could be more frequent, however.

Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion. The massive round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital,