As global energy demand surges—driven by AI-hungry data centers, advanced manufacturing, and electrified transportation—researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have unveiled a ...

America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

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A new study estimates the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and calls for more transparency from companies on their pollution and water consumption. A new study estimates the environmental impact of ...

Given marching orders by the U.S. Energy Dept. to boost artificial intelligence sector growth, independent agency Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) now must absorb nearly 200 diverging power ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Drax Group (DRX.L), opens new tab said on Thursday it could convert part of its power station in Yorkshire, northern England, into a data centre as soon as 2027, using land, ...

Texas' power grid is getting slammed with more big requests than ever, and most of them are coming from the booming world of artificial intelligence. ERCOT reported this week that large load ...

HOUSTON — A new industry report warns that Texas' rapidly expanding data center industry could put additional pressure on the state's power grid this winter. But experts say ERCOT is still in a ...

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...

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