Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a temporary halt to new data center grid connections, mandating that state regulators audit each project before it can advance. Abbott directed the Public Utility ...

The largest electrical grid in the U.S. has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after an auction to add more generating capacity fell short, the grid’s operator, PJM ...

The Trump administration announced Monday that it is exempting power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain.

Virginia regulators began preparing a rebuttal to a health study of the state’s only self-powered data center before it was published—even as agency employees warned they were not qualified to assess ...

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because data centers ...

Indiana is considering the state’s first off-grid power source to provide electricity temporarily to a Meta data center being built in Lebanon. Texas-based Life Cycle Power submitted an air emissions ...

A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses because of electricity needs of data centers. By Ivan Penn See more ...

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 ...

People visit the Huawei stand during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) at the Shanghai World Expo and Convention Center in Shanghai on July 28, 2025. Getty Images/HECTOR RETAMAL ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal regulators on Thursday took steps aimed at both speeding up the buildout of AI data centers and reducing costs. The ...

US regulators have taken their biggest step yet to speed the connection of data centers to the country’s grids while simultaneously attempting to slow surging utility bills that have angered Americans ...