Scrambling to meet higher than average demand, PJM, the nonprofit company that operates the grid serving much of the mid-Atlantic U.S., asked for federal permission to generate more power, even if it ...

The proliferation of data centers in Arizona raises concerns about the strain on the state's water and power resources. Existing and planned data centers in Maricopa County could nearly double the ...

Nikki Luke is a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. She receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She previously worked at the U.S. Department of Energy. Conor Harrison receives ...

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At a community meeting Sunday about the natural gas-powered data center project near Homer City, activists and residents expressed concerns ranging from environmental to economic and health impacts.

Power Solutions International is deeply undervalued despite robust earnings growth and a strategic pivot toward high-margin data center power systems. PSIX trades at 14x 2025 earnings, a steep ...

AI data centers are driving a surge in new gas projects. AI data centers are driving a surge in new gas projects. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a ...

The Trump administration issued an emergency order Sunday night allowing Texas’ power grid operator to use backup generators from data centers and other facilities to prevent rotating outages over the ...

Power prices in the largest U.S. grid rose sharply on Sunday as demand in a region with the world's largest concentration of ⁠energy-hungry data centers surpassed forecasts during a deep freeze ...

The Energy Department is ordering U.S. grid operators to make backup electricity generation from facilities such as data centers available in case of power outages caused by the weekend’s expected ...

In a major milestone for the city, a data center in South San Jose has become the first project to receive power under a historic agreement with PG&E that guarantees service delivery for large energy ...

The projected demand for electricity to power new data centers driven by the growth in AI applications greatly outpaces current electricity grid capacities. Global data center capacity is projected to ...