Electricity costs spiked around ‘data center alley’ as frigid temperatures threatened the power grid. Electricity costs spiked around ‘data center alley’ as frigid temperatures threatened the power ...

For the past two years, the conversation around AI infrastructure has focused on chips, models, and capital. In practice, that isn’t what’s slowing projects down. What matters is electricity–where it ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A developer plans to build a 160-acre data center and its own gas-fired power plant in Surprise. Residents near the proposed site worry about air pollution, health risks, and safety concerns. Because ...

The Trump administration is pressing the nation’s largest electric grid operator to conduct an emergency power auction as part of a broader effort to make tech giants cover soaring data center power ...

While I agree with Peter Huntsman’s assessment of the environmental lobby’s hijacking of U.S. energy policy, and the need for restoration of fossil fuel supply, his argument for catering to the energy ...

The data center industry is racing toward a power crisis that technology alone will not be able to solve, according to Uptime Institute’s 2026 data center predictions report. “Critical digital ...