Large-load developments increasingly are driving construction of substations, transmission infrastructure and grid upgrades as utilities race to meet AI-driven electricity demand growth nationwide.

A new solar and gas microgrid will power East Central’s Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in the event of an outage, developers celebrating the completion of the project said at a Tuesday panel ...

Georgia residents were left outraged when they discovered a massive data center had been guzzling up nearly 30 million gallons of water without paying for it. The issue began last year when residents ...

A hot potato: While it's fair to say that a lot of people really dislike AI, those living near AI data centers hate the technology even more. The latest example of why sentiment against these ...

Plans are afoot behind the scenes for a new data center in Dutchess Center with vast power needs — far greater than any similar facility now operating in New York. The site is a wooded tract in East ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via Gemini. When large electrical loads, like data centers, come offline quickly, bad things can happen to the power grid. As more such customers connect to the U.S. bulk power ...

In the rolling hills near Reno, Nevada, in a field filled with solar panels, something unexpected is nestled into the landscape: a data center that isn’t blowing up its neighbors’ electric bills. In ...

Nevada remains one of the fastest-growing data center regions in the U.S., according to the Desert Research Institute, a Nevada environmental nonprofit research organization. The DRI released a ...

Artificial Intelligence holds the promise to improve life on the planet almost beyond description, such as developing new cancer therapies, but breakneck development of the data centers that run AI ...

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 ...

SALINE TWP., MI — Michigan’s first hyperscale data center project in Saline Township has secured financing, Dallas, Texas-based development company Related Digital announced in a release. Financing ...

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. As ...