As a forest of pitchforks approaches America’s data centers, Big Tech can turn to a time-tested strategy: Hiding. As in, behind the meter. That phrase refers to onsite power generation that can offer ...

PJM seeks to close about 6.8-gigawatt reliability shortfall after recent capacity auction Recent PJM capacity auction hits $325 per megawatt-day price cap PJM proposes registry for data centers and ...

Facing skyrocketing demand, the nation’s largest grid operator plans to require new data centers to provide their own power or have their service cut when the grid is strained. PJM Interconnection, ...

Americans could soon feel the artificial intelligence boom in an unavoidable place — their monthly electric bills. Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas finds that the rapid growth of AI ...

Denmark introduced an emergency law to overhaul access to its power grid, including by making most data centers the lowest priority, as the country’s energy minister warned that the current system ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday sought to explain why he instituted regulations on data centers after expressing broad support for them over the last year. In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” the ...

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the ...

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This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Federal regulators mandated all US grid operators revise rules for large power users. PJM, ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is the latest U.S. representative to push back against the flurry of data centers proposed in his jurisdiction as constituents grow increasingly hostile to the idea of the ...

The US is at a heightened risk of a catastrophic blackout that could last up to 18 months due to aging power grid infrastructure that takes agonizingly long to update and is potentially vulnerable to ...

For almost two decades, total U.S. electricity demand barely grew. The country kept adding people and businesses that needed power, but Americans were using electricity more efficiently, and the ...