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…
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…
Data center demand is expected to drive over $23 billion in customer electricity price increases by 2028, according to a report by Monitoring Analytics, an independent monitor for PJM, the largest US …
Data centers are driving up electricity costs for residential and commercial customers across the United States, as utilities invest in new infrastructure to meet surging power demand. A recent report…
Decimal Digital is proposing a 100 MW AI data center in Monroeville, Ohio, after a cryptocurrency mining project collapsed and left the village with unpaid bills. The developer is funding infrastructu…
AI investment is on pace to top a trillion dollars a year, diverting capital, industrial real estate, electricity, and labor from housing, manufacturing, and other sectors, according to a New York Tim…
Henrico County, Virginia, which hosts 37 data centers consuming massive amounts of electricity, is asking teachers and employees to turn off lights and unplug devices to save on power costs after a 25…
Exelon CEO Calvin Butler warned that U.S. blackouts could begin as early as 2027 due to surging energy demand from AI data centers, which have pushed grid capacity to its limits. Nearly 400,000 Exelon…
Hitachi Energy broke ground on a $457 million expansion of its South Boston, Virginia, campus to build the largest power transformer factory in the US, creating 825 jobs. The facility will produce lar…
Utah State Senate President J. Stuart Adams lost his primary election after backing a data center project opposed by 60% of voters, signaling growing bipartisan backlash against AI data centers drivin…
Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home announced a partnership to aggregate over 16 GW of home batteries and smart devices into the largest U.S. virtual power plant, targeting surging data center electricity d…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered all six regional grid operators to justify or reform interconnection tariffs for large energy users, targeting wait times that can stretch up to a deca…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered six major grid operators to fast-track interconnection requests from data centers and other large electricity users, aiming to address delays that thre…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced plans on June 18, 2026, to expedite grid connection approvals for AI data centers, cutting approval timelines to as short as 60 days for flexible loa…
Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of Talen Energy with a Buy rating and $499 price target, citing nuclear power demand from AI and data centers. The stock trades near $406, implying 23% upside, with 14…
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…
At least 75 U.S. AI data center projects worth $130 billion were blocked or delayed in early 2026, with only 33% of Americans supporting rapid construction, according to NBC News and Reuters. Equipmen…
Energy and technology companies are investing approximately $1.1 trillion in infrastructure over the next five years to meet surging electricity demand from AI workloads, according to a Fox News Speci…
Constellation Energy has cleared a key regulatory hurdle for its $1.6 billion plan to restart the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor by 2027, now renamed the Christopher M. Crane Clean Energy Center. Th…