The rapid development and widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is posing new challenges for electricity ...

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

The center hosts laboratories for large-scale grid simulation and for designing technologies that can be tested with real ...

Increasing demand from the tech industry threatens to max out generation capacity in a 13-state region. Consumers are furious ...

A historic legacy now translates to pioneering capabilities in electric grid technology at the Department of Energy's Oak ...

Data centers already strain the electric grid, and new analysis shows that our water systems aren't ready. Will Texas let ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The New York State Assembly held a hearing on Thursday to examine rising energy costs for everyday utility customers tied to new consumers on the electric grid, like ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — With the explosive growth of Big Tech's data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the ...

Given marching orders by the U.S. Energy Dept. to boost artificial intelligence sector growth, independent agency Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) now must absorb nearly 200 diverging power ...

Artificial intelligence figures to impact virtually every aspect of the global economy and now it’s making a foray onto California’s electric grid. The California Independent System Operator, which ...

A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, is under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pa., on Jan. 14, 2024. Massive computing centers proposed across ...