Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

Data centers can increase energy costs in two main ways. They have to be connected to the grid, which can require extra ...

Iron Mountain's New Jersey data center will add a 23 MWh battery storage to pair with solar, boosting reliability and easing ...

With a massive artificial intelligence data center set to open in Independence, the city will reopen and majorly expand the capacity of a decades-old power plant to fuel it. Until then, the city is ...

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The Republican Missouri senator introduced bipartisan legislation that would require data centers to build their own power plants and would increase transparency around data center energy use.

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New England leans heavily on oil-fired power plants PJM generation outages surge Spot electricity prices rise to several hundred dollars per MWH BOSTON/HOUSTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Power plant outages ...

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...

For the past two years, the conversation around AI infrastructure has focused on chips, models, and capital. In practice, that isn’t what’s slowing projects down. What matters is electricity–where it ...

Google rolled out Gemini 3.1 Pro yesterday, touting a 77.1% score on novel logic puzzles that models can't just memorize—more than double 3 Pro's result—and record marks for expert-level scientific ...

Nuclear energy provides access to clean, reliable and affordable electricity. It accounts for around 9% of global electricity and 25% of all low-carbon electricity without emitting greenhouse gases at ...