The Trump administration finalized a rule eliminating a Biden-era requirement that fossil fuel–fired power plants cut carbon dioxide emissions starting in the 2030s, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin annou…
US data centers will require 15 billion additional cubic feet of natural gas per day by 2035, according to a BloombergNEF forecast reported by Bloomberg News on September 14 — more than double Bloombe…
US data centers are forecast to add 15 billion cubic feet per day to US natural gas demand by 2035, according to a BloombergNEF outlook, more than double its previous December estimate of 6.9 billion …
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed Executive Order 658 on September 8, requiring AI data centers with peak demand above 25 megawatts to generate clean power onsite, fund new clean generation n…
More than 50% of China's forthcoming data center projects are located in the country's northern and northwestern regions, according to BloombergNEF data as of September 2026, driven by Beijing's 'East…
China's 'Data in the East, Computing in the West' campaign is shifting data-center construction to western regions like Inner Mongolia, with more than half of the country's project pipeline now in the…
ERCOT's interconnection queue holds requests for 474 gigawatts, more than five times Texas's peak demand, with roughly 90 percent attributed to data centers, prompting Governor Greg Abbott to order a …
Representative Rich McCormick (R-GA) warned against slowing US data center expansion, calling construction moratoriums 'dangerous' as the US competes with China in AI. BloombergNEF projects US data ce…
The U.S. is on track to add nearly 85 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity in the next 12 months, with about 90% from solar, wind, and batteries, according to preliminary Energy Information Age…
BHP's copper business generated $18.19 billion in underlying EBITDA for fiscal 2025, surpassing iron ore's $14.53 billion, as copper prices near record highs driven by AI data center demand. Copper co…
Nvidia announced Monday it will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data center developer backed by SoftBank and OpenAI, and provide up to $105 billion in credit to build OpenAI's Ports-Pike data cent…
Microsoft Corp. cut its purchases of carbon removal credits by about 80% in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, according to a BloombergNEF report, marking its first retrea…
BloombergNEF has raised its forecast for US data center power capacity in 2035 to 194 gigawatts, up 83% from its December 2025 projection of 106 GW, driven by planned AI infrastructure. Nearly half of…
Advances in artificial intelligence could dramatically reduce the energy demands of data centers, according to Temasek. Russell Tham, head of emerging technologies at Temasek Global Investments, said …
BloombergNEF revised its US data center power forecast 83% higher in seven months, now projecting 194 gigawatts of electricity consumption by 2035, or one-fifth of the nation's total power supply. The…
Data centers are expected to consume one-fifth of U.S. electricity by 2035, quadrupling current usage, according to a BloombergNEF report. The surge in AI compute will drive data center capacity to ne…
BloombergNEF projects US data centers will consume roughly 20% of the nation's electricity by 2035, up from about 5.9% today, driven by AI and crypto mining demand. The forecast pegs US data center po…
Data centers in the US will consume about 20% of the nation's electricity by 2035, up from 5.9% today, according to BloombergNEF. The research firm projects data center power needs will reach 194 giga…
LG Energy Solution will supply batteries for Google's largest solar and energy storage project, the Steel River Energy Center in Arkansas, which will initially pair 1.6 GW of solar with about 2 GWh of…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today temporarily halting state approval of new permits for data centers 50 megawatts or larger, making New York the first state to enact such a mo…