Retail electricity prices in the U.S. increased about 6% on average through August 2025 compared with the same period in 2024 ...

A group of Democratic senators are demanding the White House answer for higher electric bills they blame in part on the AI ...

In South Korea, a $35 billion facility under development could be the world’s first large-scale data center designed, built ...

A Maryland consumer watchdog has accused regional utilities of inflating the amount of electricity new data centers will need in a ‘land rush’ to lock up power grid access, a move that could lead to ...

BISMARCK — The Hoover dam, 3.3 million horsepower or nearly 5 million solar panels — that's the amount of power generation a handful of hyperscale data centers in North Dakota will be guzzling within ...

Servers in a data center in 2015. The data-center economy is booming in California, and Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t want to slow it down. The governor vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided ...

Michigan regulators have adopted landmark standards for the booming data center industry with a plan they say tries to protect residents from subsidizing the industry's hefty energy use.

Voter anger over the cost of living is hurtling forward into next year's midterm elections, when pivotal contests will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights ...

AI’s power hunger is driving a U.S. electricity boom, forcing tech giants to seek stable, low-carbon energy sources beyond intermittent renewables. Nuclear power—both conventional and modular—is ...

The Trump administration has begun prioritizing the review of new, potentially hazardous chemicals used in data centers that public health advocates and environmental attorneys warn could endanger ...

Quietly but quickly, Phoenix has become one of the nation’s hotspots for a booming economic and technological phenomenon of late-stage capitalism: data centers – the boxy, sprawling farms of wire and ...

MORE RESIDENTS. SPRINGDALE RESIDENTS ARE STILL SPLIT INTO A FEW CAMPS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF A HYPERSCALE AI DATA CENTER ON THE SITE OF THE OLD POWER STATION. THE PROPOSED SITE WOULD INCLUDE A 565,000 ...