Increasing demand from the tech industry threatens to max out generation capacity in a 13-state region. Consumers are furious ...

The modern United States runs on an invisible machine of wires, transformers, data centers, and control rooms. If that ...

Data centers are straining electricity supplies even as Oregon tries to switch to renewable power. That’s put the grid’s ...

States in the US are discussing emergency power grid cutoff regulations on Big Tech data centers because the explosive development of artificial intelligence has overloaded electrical systems in the ...

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Artificial intelligence, automation, crypto mining, and cloud computing are putting increasing demand on electric utilities—and the power-hungry data centers these technologies rely on continue to ...

The state’s Independent System Operator is forecasting power grid reliability concerns in New York City and Long Island as early as next summer – with broader concerns raised in a second ISO report ...

The US power grid is under mounting strain from aging infrastructure, slow interconnections and regional bottlenecks, while demand, complexity and variability are on the rise. Building a future-ready ...

The energy demand from data centers is expected to double by 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. But the US power grid, full of aging infrastructure, years-long connection ...

AI data centers are putting tremendous pressure on the US's already fragile power infrastructure. In addition to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, multiple Wall Street investment banks ...

People in Worcester's Grafton Hills neighborhood have been bracing for sudden outages since the day after Thanksgiving.

Kauai, one of the most remote islands of Hawaii, stands steady among the timeless crash of ocean waves. Electric waves, ...