The rapid rise of AI data centers is testing the limits of the power grid, driving utilities to boost capital spending, overhaul tariffs, and build new flexibility into their ...

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

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 ...

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

As data center developers invest billions in Pennsylvania, the state is weighing who should pay the literal price of their ...

With the right policies, Arizona can be a model of how to build data centers without draining scant resources or putting ...

Transaction positions ENTO in the high-growth AI energy-infrastructure market, amid a surge of multi-billion-dollar ...

Data Center photo. Courtesy Microsoft. American Electric Power (AEP) is facing 15 GW of projected load growth from data centers by 2030, the utility said on its second-quarter earnings call Tuesday.

In 2018, data center power consumption as a whole reached a total of 205 TWh, almost 1% of the global electricity supply, 1 solidifying their fundamental role in the worldwide network infrastructure ...