The data center buildout won't happen without these three companies. The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) is having a ripple effect on the nation's power grid. The need for more data centers ...

The expansion is driven by new large-load customers, with data centers expected to account for 90% of the new power demand. Public hearings revealed divided opinions, with some supporting grid ...

While some people last Friday dressed in Halloween costumes or handed out candy to trick-or-treaters, a group of U.S. data scientists published a list of “dearly departed” datasets that have been axed ...

Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of ...

Mr. Norris is a doctoral student at Duke University studying electric power systems. Amy Wasserman and her husband were stunned when the energy bill for their home in Wilmington, Del., topped $500 in ...

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The latest Consumer Price Index shows that the average electric bill went up more than 5% from September 2024 to September 2025. That's faster than the inflation rate for the same period. Conventional ...

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, ...

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

The rapid rollout of power-hungry AI data centers could be straining the US energy grid and causing utility bills to spike – and prices could get worse in the coming months, according to economists.

“AI” needs a lot of computing resources, which is why new data centers are cropping up anywhere there’s cheap land. But powering all those hungry servers takes a lot of energy, and overburdened power ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly creeping into our lives. And in support of that super technology, nondescript data centers are popping up in cities, towns and even near cattle ranches. They ...