The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) filed a proposal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on August 28 to impose new interconnection reliability requirements on large power co…
President Trump used Truth Social on Monday to tell American towns fighting data center construction that they risk becoming 'backwards and poor,' framing the buildout as essential to staying rich in …
Vice President JD Vance said data centers must generate their own power to avoid raising electricity bills for residents, citing a proposed 10-gigawatt campus in Pike County, Ohio, led by SB Energy, w…
X Corp. said on Aug. 28 that its Safety team disrupted about 200,000 suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts, including roughly 200 that posted to manipulate U.S. debate over AI data centers and energy…
Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid told CNBC at Jackson Hole that inflation is 'still stubborn and it's still sticky,' with headline PCE at 3.7% and core PCE at 3.34% in July, both above the Fed's …
PJM Interconnection's latest capacity auction left the grid operator 6.8 GW below its Reliability Requirement for the 2028/29 delivery year, prompting a proposed Reliability Backstop Procurement filed…
Gas turbine shortages have become the biggest constraint on AI data center expansion, with GE Vernova's backlog reaching 116 GW as of Q2 2026 and delivery slots stretching to 2031. US data center powe…
PJM Interconnection, North America's largest grid operator, would cut power to new 50-megawatt data centers before other customers during shortages unless they bring newly built power, following a Fed…
Wood Mackenzie estimates that only about 28% of the 1,066 gigawatts of power requested by U.S. data center developers will ultimately be supplied, creating a major planning problem for the electrical …
PJM Interconnection is evaluating new reliability requirements for data centers after nearly 3,800 MW of Northern Virginia computational load transferred to onsite generation on July 22, the largest s…
AI data centers have added roughly $29 to $30 billion in costs to the U.S. electric grid over four recent capacity auctions, representing about 46 percent of total capacity charges, according to Monit…
PJM Interconnection accepted 715 of 811 proposed power projects into the first cycle of its reformed interconnection process, with energy storage leading at 314 projects and 60.0 GW, followed by natur…
PJM Interconnection, the grid operator for 67 million people across 13 states and the District of Columbia, on July 27 directed staff to file proposals with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission th…
PJM Interconnection proposed a framework on July 27 requiring AI data centers and other large electricity users to secure generating capacity or face curtailments during shortages, with the plan slate…
American Electric Power's subsidiary Appalachian Power outbid a data center developer to acquire a power plant in West Virginia, intensifying competition for baseload electricity as AI infrastructure …
PJM Interconnection, operator of the largest U.S. electric grid serving 65 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C., announced emergency proposals to fast-track power procurement and curb …
Amazon urged Virginia regulators during hearings this month to allow hyperscale data center operators to voluntarily fund transmission infrastructure through contributions in aid of construction (CIAC…
PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid operator, has proposed curtailing electricity supply to new large power users, including AI data centers, during grid emergencies starting June 2027, as …
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…
PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid serving 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C., faces its first-ever capacity shortfall as AI data centers drive a projected 30 GW incre…