NorthWestern Energy announced this week that it has signed a letter of intent to provide up to 1,000 megawatts of energy to a data center under development by Quantica Infrastructure, a recently ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

Georgia regulators unanimously approved a massive expansion of the state’s power grid Friday, approving Georgia Power’s request for nearly 10,000 megawatts of new energy capacity despite concerns over ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roaming the country, and asking people about their concerns on artificial intelligence, one can hear a lot about two things: job ...

The nearly 600 acres of land off Michigan Avenue in Saline Township, where Related Digital wants to build a massive data center, is still just vacant land in a fairly rural community close to Ann ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohioans may soon feel the strain of a grid that’s adding massive new data centers faster than it can build the power to run them. The just completed PJM capacity auction — the tool ...

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a derecho slammed into the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in 2020, Diana Lokenvitz had time for ...

BOSTON — Power demand from U.S. data centers is expected to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to a new forecast, a spike that’s driven by growth in artificial intelligence and that may ...

For decades, demand for electrical power has remained stable. Utilities could count on highly predictable growth patterns to guide their capacity planning. However, the power requirements of AI and ...