Across the U.S., new AI-driven data centers are causing a significant increase in power demand. Carbon Direct projects that data center capacity in the U.S. will grow from roughly 25 GW in 2024 to 120 ...

Given marching orders by the U.S. Energy Dept. to boost artificial intelligence sector growth, independent agency Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) now must absorb nearly 200 diverging power ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. Large data center operators are implementing energy saving technologies that will impact U.S. power demand and load profiles. August 18 ...

U.S. power grids are struggling to keep up with surging data center demand, forcing operators to offer “bring your own generation” or conditional grid access to hyperscalers. Big Tech is pushing back ...

US electric utilities are struggling to accurately forecast future power demand due to numerous speculative data center interconnection requests that may not materialize. The practice of AI-focused ...

Land of the french fries and all things potato, Quincy has become home base for Washington’s data center boom. Home to 13 ...

Electrical substation infrastructure increasingly sits at the front of data center project planning as utilities tighten grid access and require major power upgrades ...

Google has signed deals with a pair of U.S. utilities, agreeing to reduce power consumption at certain artificial intelligence data centers when high electricity demand is putting the regional power ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

Regions of the country with large numbers of data centers — warehouses full of computers for artificial intelligence and cloud computing — face increased risk of outages during extreme weather events ...

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