The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...

Environmental groups are opposing a decision that will allow Georgia Power to massively expand its energy grid. The decision allows Georgia Power to add 10 gigawatts of capacity. The power expansion ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about green energy tech that will change your life. Data centers are now driving demand growth at a pace that rivals ...

Global electricity consumption for data centers is set to more than double by 2030. According to the International Energy Agency, consumption will hit around 945 TWh in just four years. That’s roughly ...

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...

WOOD COUNTY, Ohio — The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) has authorized the construction of a natural gas-fired electrical generation facility in Wood County, a plant that will be used solely to serve ...

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth detailed the company’s strategy to harness U.S. natural resources to meet soaring artificial intelligence power demand — without passing the cost along to consumers. "As data ...

For the past two years, the conversation around AI infrastructure has focused on chips, models, and capital. In practice, that isn’t what’s slowing projects down. What matters is electricity–where it ...

Bitter cold and widespread power outages persist in Middle Tennessee as emergency response continues. Follow along here for live updates through Tuesday, Jan. 27. Editor's Note: For the latest updates ...

The Energy Department is ordering U.S. grid operators to make backup electricity generation from facilities such as data centers available in case of power outages caused by the weekend’s expected ...

In a major milestone for the city, a data center in South San Jose has become the first project to receive power under a historic agreement with PG&E that guarantees service delivery for large energy ...

The Trump administration is pressing the nation’s largest electric grid operator to conduct an emergency power auction as part of a broader effort to make tech giants cover soaring data center power ...