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 ...

CHICAGO, July 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture dramatically lowered its reported beef export sales on Thursday, sparking fresh concerns about the quality of the agency's data after ...

Sunrun wants to turn thousands of solar-powered homes into a giant distributed AI data center – and pay homeowners to help power the AI boom. The residential solar and storage company today launched a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Rising artificial intelligence demand has led to a nationwide construction boom of power-hungry data centers in recent years, driving concern about rising utility costs. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Spokane, WASH. -- Avista confirmed today that the 'large load customer' it entered into an agreement with that would consume as much electricity as half the utility's service area in Eastern ...

Editor’s note: Avista announced Friday afternoon that the utility is pausing negotiations with the data center developer. Avista Corp. confirmed Tuesday that a “large load” customer seeking a massive ...

Avista Corp. has entered into an agreement with one “large load” customer that is seeking to use an amount of electricity that would be equal to more than half the combined power used by all ...

The findings highlight inflationary pressures on electricity costs in mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. “The price impacts on customers have been very large and are not reversible,” the grid market ...