A Bloomberg analysis of nodal wholesale prices, built on data from Grid Status, found spots where wholesale electricity cost as much as 267% more in April 2025 than five years earlier, with more than …
US utilities are delaying the retirement of at least 15 coal plants and the Department of Energy issued emergency orders in 2025 to retain more than 17 gigawatts of coal capacity online, driven by sur…
The U.S. Department of Energy has issued a Request for Offer to private developers to build AI data centers and energy infrastructure at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in western Kentucky, a Cold…
The Trump administration is repurposing a retired Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility in Kentucky to host a massive AI data center, funded by NextEra Energy with a $100 billion project that inclu…
The Trump administration announced a $100 billion plan to redevelop the Department of Energy's former Paducah Site in Kentucky into an AI data center, backed by private investment and including a new …
The Trump administration announced a plan to redevelop a former nuclear enrichment site in Kentucky into an AI data center, backed by more than $100 billion in private investment and creating approxim…
PJM Interconnection, the grid operator for 65 million Americans across 13 states, will force data centers consuming 50 megawatts or more to switch to backup generators during grid shortages starting J…
Nvidia is negotiating a roughly $250 billion financial guarantee to backstop OpenAI's lease of SoftBank's planned 10-gigawatt data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, according to the Wall Street Journal.…
The U.S. government is backing a project to create one of the largest AI computing hubs on federal land as part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) AI infrastructure initiative, according to The Wall …
The Trump administration proposed a rule in early July to make it harder for future administrations to set efficiency mandates for home appliances, part of a broader rollback of energy efficiency effo…
The Department of Energy's draft 2026 National Transmission Needs Study concludes that AI data centers are now the dominant driver of U.S. electricity demand growth, reshaping grid expansion plans. Th…
NASA joined the federal Genesis Mission on July 22, committing to apply artificial intelligence to more than 150 petabytes of scientific data from telescopes, satellites, orbiters, landers and aeronau…
The Department of Energy announced more than $5 billion in federal commitments for the first 278 projects funded by the Genesis Mission, an AI-targeted initiative launched by President Trump in Novemb…
The White House announced more than $5 billion in federal AI commitments on July 22, 2026, selecting 278 projects across all 50 states and bringing NASA into the Genesis Mission 2026 initiative, which…
The Department of Energy selected its inaugural cohort of 278 projects for the Genesis Mission, an effort to accelerate U.S. scientific research using artificial intelligence. The projects, chosen fro…
Google is committing $40 million in AI tokens and cloud credits to support the White House's Genesis Mission, a national effort to double the pace of American scientific discovery within a decade. The…
The US Department of Energy has committed over $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an initiative pairing national labs with NVIDIA, OpenAI, Microsoft, IBM, AMD, AWS, Google, Oracle, and Scale AI to dou…
Microsoft is committing $60 million to the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, a public-private initiative launched by President Trump on November 24, 2025, to build an AI Discovery Platform that …
Microsoft announced a $60 million investment in the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission to accelerate AI for science, including $40 million in Azure compute and AI credits and $20 million in soluti…
Microsoft will invest $60 million in the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, allocating $40 million for Azure cloud and AI computing credits over three years to support large-scale AI and scientif…