Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

A new deal between Google and Voltus will take advantage of flexibility on the grid. Would you take a payment to ramp down your electricity use? Would it change anything if you were doing so to help ...

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Americans are so against the construction of artificial intelligence data centers in their local areas that they'd rather see a nuclear power plant built nearby, according to new polling data released ...

The data centres powering the AI boom already use more electricity than some small countries, and the International Energy Agency projects that their demand could reach 945 terawatt-hours a year – ...

Microsoft is weighing whether to delay or scale back one of its most ambitious clean energy goals as its rapid buildout of AI data centers puts pressure on its ability to meet those targets. Microsoft ...

A power paradox is emerging in the hyperscale era: while computing demand is accelerating, power availability is increasingly becoming the constraint that determines where data centers are built, how ...

SPARTANBURG — NorthMark, the company behind the data center under construction on South Pine Street, said that its recent request for a ninefold increase in power is consistent with its vision for the ...

Everything is bigger in Texas — and that includes the data center demand straining its power grid. Texas data center development has become so rampant that the state is on track to become the world's ...

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