Miami-based ON.energy has developed and independently validated a medium-voltage AI UPS system at the US Department of Energy's National Laboratory of the Rockies, where it met ERCOT large-load ride-t…
A transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia on July 22, 2026 knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds, following a 2024 event in which a single failed surge arrester dropped ro…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro both pivoted against data center development in the same week, with Abbott saying the industry 'dug their own grave' and Shapiro signi…
A White House 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge' signed by major technology companies in July 2026 aims to have AI data centers help finance electricity infrastructure rather than passing costs to househol…
Virginia, the U.S. data centre capital with nearly 600 facilities and over 4,900 MW operating in Northern Virginia, introduced a first-of-its-kind $0.011 per kilowatt-hour tax on data centre electrici…
Constellation Energy, Talen Energy, and Uranium Energy are positioned to benefit from surging AI data center power demand, with Constellation raising its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $11.50-$12.50 an…
Sunrun Inc. (Nasdaq: RUN) announced an agreement with Voltus to supply energy capacity from residential storage-plus-solar systems in the PJM and MISO grid regions to support Voltus's Bring Your Own C…
Sunrun will supply Voltus with capacity from residential solar-plus-storage systems in PJM and MISO under an agreement supporting Voltus' Bring Your Own Capacity programs for AI hyperscalers, the comp…
Wood Mackenzie estimates that only 28% of the 1,066 gigawatts of electricity capacity requested for US AI data centers will actually be built, with the rest considered 'phantom' projects that clog int…
Ofgem has proposed a refundable Data Centre Commitment Fee and deliverability milestones for large data center grid connections in Great Britain, aiming to purge speculative projects from a congested …
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 …
Local opposition delayed or blocked at least $130 billion of planned data center investment in the first quarter of 2026, the most in any single quarter on record, according to Roshan Shah, a data cen…
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the best-funded fusion startup, raised another $1 billion, bringing its total capital to $4 billion, roughly 30% of all money ever raised for fusion. The Massachusetts-bas…
A Techstrong investigation found that 50 organizations deployed 206 lobbyists and reported $42.4 million in quarterly federal lobbying activity tied to H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which w…
A data center disconnecting from the PJM power grid caused power flickers across 13 states from Washington DC to Chicago on Wednesday, highlighting the growing challenge of powering AI data centers. E…
A working paper from the Electric Power Research Institute found that between 2015 and 2024, each doubling of data center capacity reduced average U.S. retail electricity prices by 3.5%, contradicting…
SPAN, in partnership with Nvidia and PulteGroup, will mount 16-GPU compute nodes on suburban homes starting Q3 2026, offering hosts $150-a-month utility and internet coverage, as AI's power demand dri…
President Trump announced a voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge signed by over 200 stakeholders including governors, utility companies, and data center developers to protect consumers from rising el…
The White House expanded its voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge to include 23 governors, 55 utility companies, and 27 data center companies, covering 80% of U.S. power delivery and 263 million Amer…
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…