PJM will soon unveil its plan to prevent data centers from driving up power prices and jeopardizing reliability. Some question whether it will be enough.
Modern data centers use a similar amount of electricity but can be built in nine to 12 months. To meet that projected demand, construction of a new gas-fired power plant, or a solar farm with battery ...
Consumers see data centers as the energy-hungry culprits behind rising energy prices. Utilities see data centers as large customers who could help finance grid upgrades. As the data center boom ...
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a story about chips and software, it is rapidly becoming a story about electricity.
In a surprise move that could benefit PJM Interconnection, four state governors have submitted a joint proposal formulated with the Data Center Coalition, an industry group, that favors approving ...
The 13-state electric grid operator that serves Ohio is holding its second capacity auction of the year — setting a baseline electricity cost that will get baked into consumers’ bills in June 2027.
Virginia utilities should be able to tap the brakes on new data centers and other big power users if they don’t have the ...
WORTHINGTON — Geronimo Power and Nobles Cooperative Electric presented information about a proposed data center to the Nobles County Board of Commissioners Tuesday. While no action was taken, ...
Some artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are vacant in California because the local utility cannot provide the electricity required to operate them, according to Bloomberg. Big Tech pledged to ...
Two major data center developers hit a wall in the heart of Silicon Valley due to a lack of power. Digital Realty applied to build its 430,000-square-foot facility back in 2019; Stack, acquired ...
Where will the power come from? As AI workloads explode and U.S. data center power demand races toward 134 GW by 2030, the industry faces a fundamental constraint: the grid ...
The expansion of data centers to power the AI boom has more people wondering: what exactly is in a data center?