The rapid growth of data centers in recent years is increasingly causing angst among power operators. Power industry leaders want assurances that the electric grid is reliable, protected, and ...

NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. technology industry is being pushed to shrink its power use in times of high demand, amid growing public concern that Big Tech's massive electricity needs for ...

Texas is in the middle of the largest grid expansion in its history. Billions are already committed to new 765-kV transmission corridors that will reshape how electricity moves across the state. It ...

A California-based company is planning a new type of ranch in the heart of West Texas, measured not in herds of cattle, but in gigawatts of electricity. At the site in Fort Stockton, Pacifico Energy ...

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The U.S. power grid wasn’t built for the demand it’s facing today. Rapid electrification, energy decarbonization, AI growth, new industrial and manufacturing plants, and aging infrastructure have ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Today’s data centers have developed a ravenous appetite for power as they tackle large language models and other compute-intensive ...

SPARTANBURG — Ahead of a 3 p.m. press conference by local and state leaders that likely scuttled TigerDC’s proposed data center, the company pitched its power plan and made the case that it won’t ...

The rapid growth of data centers that support artificial intelligence is reshaping how electricity systems operate across the United States. Pennsylvania is emerging as a key location in this shift, ...

Big tech companies are reportedly developing their own isolated, off-grid data centers where they can consume resources to provide the storage and compute needed for AI development and other digital ...