Federal regulators will allow tech companies to effectively plug massive data centers directly into power plants.

US Energy Dept. push by April 30, 2026 to have a larger federal role to expedite data center and other large load grid connections, comes as President Donald Trump signs order to pre-empt state ...

In a surprise move that could benefit PJM Interconnection, four state governors have submitted a joint proposal formulated with the Data Center Coalition, an industry group, that favors approving ...

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 ...

UPDATE: Following publication of this story on Thursday, Oct. 30, Michigan officials identified the data center being served by DTE as a project by ChatGPT creator OpenAI and partners in Saline ...

(Reuters) -Operators of the U.S. electric grid covering the world's largest data center market on Wednesday said they planned to move forward with a plan to manage the connection of the giant server ...

After months of wrangling over how to handle surging power demand from AI-driven data centers and the resulting spike in electricity prices for millions, members of PJM Interconnection, the nation’s ...

Facing an unprecedented flood of data center proposals that require billions of dollars in grid infrastructure projects to power, a growing number of states and utilities are enacting measures to ...

Data centers are on track to become one of the defining energy stories of the next decade, with global facilities projected to require roughly three times as much electricity by 2035 as they do today.