Imagine a restaurant open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week that always maintains a full staff. With the exception of weekend nights and the lunch rush, the restaurant will be empty a lot of the time. But ...

Over Valentine’s Day weekend 2021, running water was a luxury. When unpredictable freezing temperatures hit the state and the power grid failed, Texans’ survival skills were put to the test. Storm Uri ...

ILLINOIS, USA — Electricity prices in Illinois are set to get even more expensive over the next decade if a new report's projections become a reality. Hyperscale data centers are driving Illinois' ...

Ford is jumping into the battery energy storage business, betting that booming demand from data centers and the electric grid can absorb the EV battery capacity it says it’s not using. To achieve this ...

Amid Ford’s shift away from making large electric vehicles, the automaker is adding a new product line to find a home for its batteries. Ford said Monday that instead of scuttling plans to build the ...

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 ...

Duke Energy is investing billions to upgrade its power grid, in part responding to unprecedented demand expected from a surge in new data centers. The Charlotte utility giant is adamant, however, that ...

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 — ERCOT is speaking up about the growth in data centers across the state. They said they’re seeing applications for the large load centers come in at record rates. These large load centers ...

Data centers present both potential benefits, like jobs and tax revenue, and risks, such as depleting freshwater and raising energy costs. Grassroots opposition to data centers is growing in Wisconsin ...

I chose a career in the trades early in my life. For three years, I’ve had the honor of serving as president of the Duluth Building and Construction Trades Council, representing thousands of skilled ...

An oversight group for Ohio’s electric grid operator, PJM Interconnection, is asking federal officials to weigh in on the future of data centers. Monitoring Analytics, PJM’s independent market monitor ...