Driven by surging AI demand, data centers are expanding at unprecedented speed, with many soon expected to require a gigawatt or more of electrical power. As a result, electricity has become a ...

PNM is seeking state approval for new wind, solar and battery storage projects as the utility works to meet growing electricity demand and move away from coal-fired power. The utility filed an ...

The power needed to operate data centers has increasingly drawn public scrutiny to the projects. But a draw from the power grid is just one of the energy issues at play. Data centers have to keep the ...

Lake Tahoe finds itself in the middle of the national debate about the rising energy demand from data centers as a utility company scrambles to secure an alternate power source. About 49,000 customers ...

Microsoft is weighing whether to delay or scale back one of its most ambitious clean energy goals as its rapid buildout of AI data centers puts pressure on its ability to meet those targets. Microsoft ...

A small utility powering the California side of Lake Tahoe has a year to find a new source of energy at a time when unprecedented demand from the rapid rise of data centers in the Nevada desert is ...

The proliferation of power-hungry data centers is making it difficult to predict the future of the Pacific Northwest’s energy needs. That has implications for the region’s efforts to invest in ...

Everything is bigger in Texas — and that includes the data center demand straining its power grid. Texas data center development has become so rampant that the state is on track to become the world's ...

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The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

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SpaceX plans to leverage its experience with the Starlink constellation for its proposed orbital data center constellation of up to one million satellites. Credit: SpaceX Here’s the version of the ...