Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A satellite image of Google's Goodnight data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas. SkyFi via Cleanview A ...

When electricity demand is set to surge—say, from a new power-hungry data center—the default response from a utility is often to build a new (and expensive) power plant and other infrastructure. A new ...

In a few short years, the technology industry has transformed places like central Ohio, where farmland is giving way to data centers and computer chip factories. In a few short years, the technology ...

AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, according to the results of a UK trial, a finding that could have implications for electricity systems worldwide. Grids from the US ...

On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released full-year data on how the country generated electricity in 2025. It’s a bit of a good news/bad news situation. The bad news is that ...

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The five electric cooperatives that serve the Upstate are urging customers to reduce energy use to reduce the strain on the power grid and avoid temporary power ...

The Trump administration issued an emergency order Sunday night allowing Texas’ power grid operator to use backup generators from data centers and other facilities to prevent rotating outages over the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Energy Department order is supposed to help ERCOT avoid the need for rotating outages amid the ongoing Texas winter storm.

As many states across the nation brace for a severe winter storm this weekend, the Department of Energy is advising grid operators to use data centers as backup generation sources in case of a power ...

UPDATE (January 30 th, 2026): For a technical breakdown of the incident affecting a company in Poland’s energy sector, refer to this blogpost. In late 2025, Poland’s energy system faced what has been ...