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WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright rejected concerns that the proliferation of data centers powering artificial intelligence across the country will raise American energy bills. The data ...

ULANQAB, China—The U.S. invented the most powerful artificial-intelligence models and controls access to the most advanced computer chips, but China has an ace to play in the global AI contest. China ...

Scheduled upgrade work by Centerpoint Energy resulted in an outage for about 30,000 customers Tuesday after workers encountered an equipment issue. As of 11 a.m., the number of those without power was ...

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...

According to CenterPoint's outage reports, the hardest-hit areas were in northern Harris County, including the suburbs of Spring, Klein and Tomball. In Harris County alone, outage maps initially ...

NextEra and Google to develop and power new data center campuses in the U.S NextEra partners with ExxonMobil for natural-gas power with carbon capture Meta and NextEra sign 2.5 gigawatts in power ...

Planned data center construction shows no signs of fading, with new additions to require 2.7x — nearly triple — the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade, according to a new ...

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 ...

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Entergy has started building two natural gas plants in Richland Parish to power Meta's new A.I. data center. The plants are part of a $5 billion investment largely funded by Entergy and Meta.

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