NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michael Thomas, CEO of Cleanview, about his new report on tech companies' plans to build their own off-grid power plants to provide energy for data centers.

Google has long procured clean power for its operations and data centers, but recent deals show the company is changing ...

It's ironic that the one thing that might be able to help manage the massive need for electrical design created by $1 trillion in data center investment to power artificial intelligence is ...

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 ...

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...

The data center industry is racing toward a power crisis that technology alone will not be able to solve, according to Uptime Institute’s 2026 data center predictions report. “Critical digital ...

An interested developer and some local officials have repeated the potential benefits of a data center at public meetings ...

Artificial intelligence is colliding with a very old constraint: the electric grid. As Microsoft races to build out massive AI data centers across the United States, communities are increasingly ...

Data centers face a conundrum: how to power increasingly dense server racks using equipment that relies on century-old technology. Traditional transformers are bulky and hot, but a new generation of ...

PJM proposes new rules limiting behind-the-meter loads above 50 MW, aiming to integrate AI-scale data centers into grid ...