{"slug": "national-grid-taps-into-us-ai-power-boom", "title": "National Grid taps into US AI power boom", "summary": "National Grid, the UK utility company, is investing $1.75bn in a developer focused on supplying power to data centres, tapping into the US AI power boom driven by surging electricity demand from artificial intelligence data centres.", "body_md": "# National Grid taps into US AI power boom\n\nSource:\n\n[Financial Times Technology](https://www.ft.com/technology)The UK utility company is investing $1.75bn in a developer focused on supplying power to data centres\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/national-grid-taps-into-us-ai-power-boom", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/national-grid-taps-into-us-ai-power-boom-5y08", "published_at": "2026-07-21 11:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-21 12:06:15.987439+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["National Grid"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/national-grid-taps-into-us-ai-power-boom", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/national-grid-taps-into-us-ai-power-boom.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/national-grid-taps-into-us-ai-power-boom.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/national-grid-taps-into-us-ai-power-boom.jsonld"}}