The requests flooding interconnection queues come from data center developers, private equity funds, land brokers, and shell ...

The top North American grid watchdog warns that AI data centers threaten grid stability with power swings, calling for action ...

NEW YORK — 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 its expansion of data ...

Hyperscale data centers are outpacing grid infrastructure. How power availability is reshaping where and when AI campuses get built.

PJM is asking federal regulators to approve changes to its rules governing “behind-the-meter” power agreements through which data centers or other industrial customers buy a portion of their ...

A new Senate bill would shield consumers from data centers’ rising energy costs. The instinct is right. The diagnosis is wrong. Data centers now account for roughly 7% of U.S. electricity demand, ...

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission plans action on proposal to expand oversight of AI-driven data center grid connections as utilities accelerate transmission upgrades.

The data center industry is facing a reckoning as governments around the world consider imposing limits on the growth of the ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence data centers now consume 29.6 gigawatts of electricity worldwide, according to Stanford University’s ...