Efforts to support a more sustainable grid that scales for AI data centers and electrifies industry and transport are ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law in June that empowers the state’s grid operator to remotely disconnect data centers and other large energy users if the grid is under extreme stress. The so-called ...

Duke Energy announced Wednesday it was hoping to keep some of its coal units humming to meet electricity demand as a grid reliability crisis looms large. “By expanding our diverse generation portfolio ...

This summer’s record-breaking heat around the country has exposed a major vulnerability in the U.S. economy: our outdated electricity grid. From factory slowdowns to data center outages, the cost of ...

A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, is under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pa., on Jan. 14, 2024. Massive computing centers proposed across ...

A Data Center Could Be Coming to an Upstate New York Town, and Residents Are Speaking Out A Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Landed in the Rocky Mountains Where It Historically Couldn’t Survive Is ...

“The cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity,” writes Sam Altman, forecasting a future where intelligence becomes as cheap and abundant as electricity. The ...

The sheer volume of energy demand from Texas data centers is creating headaches for the state’s grid operator. Credit: Shutterstock / Calvin Douglas This article originally appeared on Inside Climate ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. As summer arrives, people are turning on air conditioners in most of the U.S ...