Programs designed to enable load flexibility and demand response in data centers are becoming more critical as constraints on the electric grid intensify. A survey of U.S. energy professionals shows ...

Growing power demand for oil and gas operations and technology manufacturing are creating openings for U.S. power plant ...

To put those figures in perspective, AEP notes peak demand for all its Ohio customers has landed between 8,000 and 10,500 megawatts in recent years.

TotalEnergies just landed a massive solar deal to power Google’s expanding Texas data centers. The company signed two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity, or ...

A month after the state’s grid operator said it would pull together data centers and other large load projects that have been waiting to connect to the grid into a group called “batch zero,” that ...

The Energy Secretary tells me that data centers are not responsible for Americans paying higher utility bills, but consumer advocates say Americans are footing the bill for the rapid expansion of ...

The windowless buildings rising across North Carolina look more like warehouses than engines of climate change. They have no smokestacks and no obvious emissions. But inside, thousands of servers run ...

Racks of servers inside an AWS data center in 2023. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Lisa Karstetter grew up in Eastern Washington’s agricultural country. By the mid-2000s, she was running the Quincy Valley ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Utility regulators in Texas will start asking data centers and crypto-mining operations statewide within a narrow timeframe to share information about how much water they’re using and ...

New legislation being introduced in Springfield seeks to reign in both the increasing costs to consumers and the environment impacts tied to the rapid growth of data centers in Illinois. The rapid ...

Artificial intelligence companies are threatening to shun Illinois and build their most advanced data centers in Wisconsin and Indiana if the state doesn’t dilute its privacy law, the toughest in the ...

The process to bring a data center to Columbus has begun. “It is the first step in a long process of getting a data center here,” Kendrick said during the meeting. Kendrick said a site has not been ...