The move is unusual because data-center operators and other businesses generally don’t distribute energy onto the grid.

The Trump administration issued an emergency order Sunday night allowing Texas' power grid operator to use backup generators ...

Texas data centers and other large energy consumers were ordered to activate backup generators as Winter Storm Fern ...

As many states across the nation brace for a severe winter storm this weekend, the Department of Energy is advising grid ...

The Department of Energy is allowing grid operators PJM and ERCOT to take extraordinary steps to avoid blackouts as winter ...

The U.S. Department of Energy used the Federal Power Act on Monday to allow data centers within the regional grid operated by PJM Interconnection, including those in Virginia, to use generators at PJM ...

New rules by the PJM power network will fast-track combined data center and power generation projects, favoring new gas ...

Backed by global investment firm Denham Capital, Gray Oak Power will offer data center companies a fully integrated solution, including power plant design, permitting, financing, construction ...

Those dynamics are examined in a new peer-reviewed study titled Power for AI Data Centers: Energy Demand, Grid Impacts, Challenges and Perspectives, published in Energies. The research finds that AI ...