The amount of ERCOT‘s large load interconnection requests ballooned to more than 230 gigawatts this year, a massive increase from the 63 gigawatts reported in December 2024. The agency, which operates ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE — The first power projects in PG&E’s pipeline to serve data centers could appear on the grid as soon as next year, despite some hints of softening demand. Related Articles When Bay Area PG&E ...

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The study showed no link between load-managed players and a decreased risk of injury. Shaun Powell The NBA sent data from an exhaustive study to its teams this week that showed no link between ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

In part collaborating with Triumph, best-known as a factoring company, the Highway carrier-identity-verification service is launching what it's calling the "Trusted Freight Exchange" (TFX). Highway ...

On Google’s podcast, Martin Splitt explains how default lazy loading can delay LCP, why some libraries hinder indexing, and how to verify fixes. Google warns against lazy-loading above-the-fold images ...

As graphics processing units (GPUs) and other AI chips are deployed into data centers, it’s becoming critical to regulate the huge amounts of power racing into them. Sudden inrushes of current can ...

One of the biggest advantages of electric cars is that they can power things without spitting out nasty fumes. Their huge high-voltage batteries can send power to just about any outlet imaginable–from ...

Using less electricity as a response to high demand had been a nonstarter for big tech companies. That might be changing. For years, calculating the power needs for data centers has revolved around ...

Across the U.S., new AI-driven data centers are causing a significant increase in power demand. Carbon Direct projects that data center capacity in the U.S. will grow from roughly 25 GW in 2024 to 120 ...