Data centers tied to the biggest US grid just tacked on another $6.5 billion to the cost of procuring power supplies, adding to concerns the artificial intelligence boom is worsening energy inflation.

The rapid development and widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is posing new challenges for electricity consumption. This is because most AI systems rely on data centers, facilities ...

America’s electric grid is in grave danger. After decades of relatively flat national electricity demand, a surge of tech data centers, artificial intelligence, and other Big Tech electricity demand ...

There is a rising chorus of concern across the energy industry that the electric grid is facing a surge in power use that our infrastructure won’t be able to handle. The historical stewards of our ...

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Data Centers in Virginia, U.S. BOSTON (Reuters) -Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly the same electricity as ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Big Tech’s appetite for energy is just about visible from the east coast of Scotland.

Hundreds of coal plants are shutting down across the U.S. WSJ goes inside Minnesota’s Sherburne County plant to learn what it takes to power down coal production—and how this plant is ramping up its ...

One Covid project has paid for itself and then some only five years later. And the benefits go beyond cost of living.

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From Colorado to Washington, from Ohio to Pennsylvania, coal-fired power plants are shutting down. The United States is on track to retire half of its capacity to generate electricity from coal by ...

Large, energy-intensive businesses like data centers are driving demand for electricity across the Northwest. With the shrinking amount of vacant buildable land in Southwest Washington and the ...