As a brutal heat wave hits much of the central and eastern United States this week, the Department of Energy wants power-hungry data centers to help ease the strain on the grid. The Energy Department ...

A heat dome is causing record energy demand on the electric grid powering Ohio and other states. The U.S. Department of Energy has approved emergency measures to protect the power grid from July 1 to ...

As triple-digit temperatures engulf much of the United States, the Trump administration wants grid managers to require the use of backup power that often goes unused. By Ivan Penn and Hilary Howard As ...

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Federal regulators on Thursday took steps aimed at both speeding up the buildout of AI data centers and reducing costs. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed regional electric grid ...

It seems like a major U.S. energy regulator is trying to have it all. It wants grid operators to move faster in connecting power-hungry data centers, while also keeping costs down for regular ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) told grid operators on Thursday to fast-track interconnection requests from data centers and other large electricity users. Under the orders, six major ...

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A Republican senator introduced legislation Wednesday that, if it is adopted, would set federal rules around how data centers can plug into the electric grid as AI energy consumption has become a ...

NEW ORLEANS — Attorneys representing Entergy customers in a class-action lawsuit tied to Hurricane Ida secured a breakthrough Tuesday after Entergy agreed to provide a limited sample of data that ...

Australia’s energy operator warned that fast-growing AI data centers could create new power grid stability risks as compute demand rises across APAC. Australia’s AI data center boom is becoming a ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s a lofty goal: Build the first “energy grid” in space to beam power to satellites, and even to future data centers in orbit, if companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX succeed in ...