As a brutal heat wave hits much of the central and eastern United States this week, the Department of Energy wants power-hungry data centers to help ease the strain on the grid. The Energy Department ...

PJM forecast record demand of 166.2 gigawatts at about 6 p.m. EDT Thursday Wholesale power costs rose 68% to $40 billion in the first five months, PJM watchdog says Data center demand accounted for $3 ...

As triple-digit temperatures engulf much of the United States, the Trump administration wants grid managers to require the use of backup power that often goes unused. By Ivan Penn and Hilary Howard As ...

NEW YORK, June 30 (Reuters) - Members of the PJM Interconnection on Tuesday voted to advance a plan to source more electricity to serve the rising data center demand that threatens to overtake ...

The legislation is part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s response to increased electricity demand and the data center construction blitz. The House Energy and Commerce Committee will take ...

The House of Representatives on Wednesday will begin consideration of a bill to force tech companies to pay for artificial intelligence's strain on the power grid, as voters across the country express ...

The nation’s electric grid is stressed out. Unprecedented energy demands for large customers, such as data centers and cryptomines, are straining power supplies, raising electric rates in some regions ...

A heat dome is causing record energy demand on the electric grid powering Ohio and other states. The U.S. Department of Energy has approved emergency measures to protect the power grid from July 1 to ...

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Australia’s largest electricity transmission company, Transgrid, wrote last week to data centre operators revealing an “unprecedented increase in inquiries” from developers seeking large-scale ...

Texas has been flooded with data center requests to join its power grid. The state seeks to sort out who actually wants to do business in Texas — and which projects are purely speculative. Data ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...