Data-center developers are turning to utilities and grid operators for unprecedented amounts of electricity. The power industry is countering with a perhaps surprising question of its own: Are you for ...

A year ago, there weren't many voters talking about data centers. Now, the massive facilities being built to satisfy the enormous computing needs of the AI boom have become one of the most explosive ...

The top US energy regulator ordered the nation’s biggest electric grid to develop a new plan for securing additional power supplies to feed booming data-center demand, after calling an initial ...

AI data centers are burning through electricity so fast that chip supply is no longer the binding constraint on the industry's growth, and the companies racing to close the gap may not be the ones ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The U.S. power grid, long resistant to modernization despite technological advances, is now ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered a halt on all environmental permits for data centers. The pause will remain until audits of the state's electric grid and water resources are complete. This ...

Grid software unicorn Emerald AI has formed a coalition with Google and Nvidia that will use the startup’s technology to secure space on the grid for more data centers. The AI Energy Management ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 300 data centers are currently operating in Texas, with approximately an additional 200 planned and nearly 100 already under construction. KXAN obtained data from Data Center ...

PJM capacity prices rose 833 percent in a single delivery year. One Virginia fault dropped 1,500 megawatts of AI load in under a second. AI power swings can ramp 1,000 megawatts per second at gigawatt ...

The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance. As data center ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Aug. 18 that raises the bar for large data center development in the state, directing agencies to condition favorable permitting treatment ...

As a forest of pitchforks approaches America’s data centers, Big Tech can turn to a time-tested strategy: Hiding. As in, behind the meter. That phrase refers to onsite power generation that can offer ...