The most important asset within any digital economy revolves around data. The most successful companies are those whose ...

Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of ...

Tensions over a proposed 67-mile transmission line have rocked Maryland's farming communities, as the nation’s largest grid operator says data centers are driving power demands. MT. AIRY, Md. — ...

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The latest Consumer Price Index shows that the average electric bill went up more than 5% from September 2024 to September 2025. That's faster than the inflation rate for the same period. Conventional ...

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, ...

Backup generators are gaining a new lease on life in data centers. For decades, they have been a rarely used part of the infrastructure, existing for those moments when other power sources fail. But ...

While compute devices such as CPUs, GPUs, and XPUs are stealing the limelight in the artificial intelligence (AI) era, there is an increasing realization that powering AI at scale demands new power ...

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

AI data centers typically operate at 20 to 40 kilowatts per rack, with designs targeting 50 to 100 kilowatts or more; however, many can't break ground because the grids lack sufficient capacity. Power ...

Over the past few months, Americans have looked aghast at their rising electricity bills — in New Jersey, for example, prices have risen 19 percent just in the last year — and found one clear ...