Power-grid operators are asking tech companies to supply their own electricity—or go dark at times—but many are pushing back.

Artificial intelligence is supposed to be the clean, digital brain of the modern economy. Instead, the race to build ever ...

This past summer, a fire at an electrical substation forced data centers in Loudoun County to rely on backup diesel generators as their power source. Grid failures like this happen often, but this ...

Proposals could require state approval for data center projects, curtail their energy demand during peak times.

The rise of artificial intelligence is driving a surge of data center construction across the United States, and rural communities are feeling the impact. Reading time 4 minutes Elena Schlossberg and ...

When a derecho slammed into the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in 2020, Diana Lokenvitz had time for exactly one glance out her window. A wall of clouds had poured in from the west, swallowing Palo, Iowa, ...

In the sunbaked outskirts of El Paso, Texas, construction crews are laying the foundations for Meta’s “AI‑optimized” 1.2-million-square-foot data center, designed to house thousands of servers and ...

As AI-driven timelines outpace grid capacity, Ben Rapp contends that future-ready data centers will depend on tightly integrated power and cooling architectures—modular, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The county seat of Santa Clara is touting its partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the city is “the ...

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...

Texas has a dire water shortage, while data centers require enormous amounts of water to keep their computers from overheating. One data center can consume millions of gallons of water daily, the ...