Cutting corners: The jet engine – once a symbol of speed and flight – is finding new life on the ground, fueling the world's artificial intelligence infrastructure. Faced with long delays in ...

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 ...

The power sector is grappling with a fundamental mismatch: hyperscale data centers demand electricity at unprecedented speed and scale, while the infrastructure to serve them operates on timelines ...

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires ...

As the surge in artificial intelligence and data centers continues across the state, Austin officials say the technology's rapid expansion could drive up utility rates, overwhelm the power grid and ...

As the surge in artificial intelligence and data centers continues across the state, Austin officials say the technology’s rapid expansion could drive up utility rates, overwhelm the power grid and ...

Mark Christie, formerly a top power grid regulator, is warning that a proposal that’s part of the Trump administration’s push to fast-track artificial intelligence (AI) data center proliferation will ...

Mark Christie, formerly a top power grid regulator, is warning that a proposal that’s part of the Trump administration’s push to fast-track artificial intelligence (AI) data center proliferation will ...

Power-hungry data centers risk pushing parts of the U.S. power grid toward failure. Some technology companies are fighting a potential solution: disconnecting the data centers from the grid when ...

[Ed. update 1/6/2026: This article has been updated to include additional context about the scope and methodology of the E3 study referenced herein.] As electricity demand from data centers continues ...