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The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

Oracle Corp. agreed to purchase as much as 2.8 gigawatts of fuel-cell power from Bloom Energy Corp. to supply data centers for artificial intelligence work. An initial 1.2 gigawatts of capacity has ...

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Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain trends, and present findings clearly across business, finance, product, and ...

Short-duration battery technologies such as Li-ion and valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA) batteries are typically used in data centers as part of uninterruptible power supply systems (UPS). Data center ...

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 ...

Microsoft claims you no longer need to hire expensive Power BI optimization experts. With Copilot, a task that took days could now be done in minutes. Microsoft Power BI is often touted by many in the ...

Large tech companies are just beginning to share financial details on the massive amounts of power they’ve locked in to run their AI data centers. But for some investors, those details aren’t nearly ...

HERMANTOWN, Minn. — Minnesota Power announced a partnership with Google to supply energy for a new data center in Hermantown. In a press release Tuesday, Minnesota Power announced the data center ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that major technology companies developing artificial intelligence data centers will have to cover their electricity needs under what he called a newly negotiated ...

New A.I. sites could drive up your power bill. We look at possible solutions. By Claire Brown Tech companies are investing billions of dollars to build energy-hungry data centers at a time when demand ...