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 ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed seven bills aimed at giving communities more information about proposed data centers’ energy, water, workforce and land use to help weigh their economic ...

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 ...

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 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s share of the regional power grid could grow from 123 gigawatts to 185 gigawatts by 2046, according to an Iowa State University professor who specializes in power ...

The true scale of prospective projects that want to plug into the Texas grid is hard to hold in your head. As of August 3, the Texas governor’s office put the figure at more than 474 gigawatts of ...