AI companies are growing at a rapid pace — and continued growth depends on increasing energy supply. Data centers are sprouting up all over the country, sometimes facing community backlash thanks to ...

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a derecho slammed into the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in 2020, Diana Lokenvitz had time for ...

AI has quickly become the defining driver of demand within global data centers, outpacing nearly every forecast made prior to the latest breakthroughs, and the resultant power consumption leap has not ...

(The Center Square) – A new stipulated agreement reached between Georgia Power and the Public Service Commission's Public Interest Advocacy staff could lower electric bills while giving the utility ...

Theodore Kury is the Director of Energy Studies at the University of Florida’s Public Utility Research Center, which is sponsored in part by the Florida electric and gas utilities, the Florida Public ...

As artificial intelligence applications and model scales continue their rapid expansion, the technology industry faces a mounting infrastructure crisis: power supply cannot keep pace with demand. Time ...

To hear Silicon Valley tell it, artificial intelligence is outgrowing the planet that gave birth to it. Data centers will account for nearly half of U.S. electricity demand growth between now and 2030 ...

Georgia Power and the Public Service Commission’s staff unveiled a deal Wednesday that would allow the utility to add about 10,000 megawatts of power supplies in just five years, an unprecedented ...

Amid Ford’s shift away from making large electric vehicles, the automaker is adding a new product line to find a home for its batteries. Ford said Monday that instead of scuttling plans to build the ...

Duke Energy is investing billions to upgrade its power grid, in part responding to unprecedented demand expected from a surge in new data centers. The Charlotte utility giant is adamant, however, that ...

Georgia Power seeks approval for a $16B plan to add 10 gigawatts to the grid, driven largely by data center demand. The utility says rates could drop by 2029, but customers and advocacy groups are ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...