U.S. utility companies are planning to invest $1.4 trillion over the next five years to update the nation's ailing power grid as the data center boom intensifies the need for electricity. That's ...

The surge of proposed data centers across Virginia is raising questions about whether the state’s power grid can keep up with demand. Ali Mehrizi-Sani, professor and director of the Virginia Tech ...

The flood of data centers signaling interest in Texas keeps growing to ever more impossible heights, prompting questions and anxiety about how the state’s power grid can keep up. To manage this growth ...

Last month, President Trump sat alongside executives of the largest tech companies in the country as they pledged to pay a fair share of the energy costs of their data center buildout. “Data centers … ...

As a result, the wait for a data center to connect to the grid can be years in many parts of the country. Hyperscalers — companies that operate large data centers and provide vast computing power — ...

Demand response measures — which are popping up in utility contracts and state legislation — require data centers to use less power when the grid is stressed. Rising electricity prices are prompting ...

Electricity demand across U.S. power markets has reached a turning point, thanks to the growing number of data centers and increased AI infrastructure, remaking the electricity distribution system ...

The rapid growth of data centers in recent years is increasingly causing angst among power operators. Power industry leaders want assurances that the electric grid is reliable, protected, and ...

NEW YORK — The U.S. technology industry is being pushed to shrink its power use in times of high demand, amid growing public concern that Big Tech’s massive electricity needs for its expansion of data ...

NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. technology industry is being pushed to shrink its power use in times of high demand, amid growing public concern that Big Tech's massive electricity needs for ...