PJM Interconnection LLC, America's biggest power grid, plans to launch an emergency auction in September to address a nearly seven-gigawatt electricity shortage for the year beginning 2028, with costs…
A transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia's 'Data Center Alley' on Wednesday caused hyperscale data centers to automatically transfer to backup power, removing more than 3 GW of load from the PJM…
A transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia's "Data Center Alley" caused hyperscale data centers to automatically transfer to backup power Wednesday, resulting in more than 3 GW of load disappearin…
Emerald AI's Conductor software, tested in a simulation during a 2020 England-Germany soccer match, reduced data center power usage to prevent grid strain. The system will deploy in a Virginia facilit…
PJM and ERCOT, America's two largest grid operators, face interconnection queues exceeding 233 GW, driven by AI data centers and Bitcoin miners. The surge threatens grid reliability and has already dr…
Mital Gandhi, a resident of Ashburn, Virginia, is attempting to sell his entire 143-home neighborhood, The Regency, to a data center developer for over $500 million after years of noise and environmen…
New peer-reviewed research from North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon projects that AI and data center growth could drive up U.S. electricity costs by 57% in some regions and 6% to 29% n…
Residents of Virginia are seeing their electricity bills triple due to the rapid expansion of data centers, even if they have never used one. A Manassas man's bill jumped to $281 in January, roughly t…