NEW YORK, Aug 7 (Reuters) - After putting up tens of millions of dollars to connect to the Texas grid, data center companies in the Lone Star State now risk losing their deposits without a clear ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered state regulators to audit pending data center projects seeking connections to the state's electric grid, a move ERCOT says effectively pauses those projects as Texas ...

Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a temporary halt to new data center grid connections, mandating that state regulators audit each project before it can advance. Abbott directed the Public Utility ...

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because data centers ...

The largest electrical grid in the U.S. has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after an auction to add more generating capacity fell short, the grid’s operator, PJM ...

The Trump administration announced Monday that it is exempting power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain.

Virginia regulators began preparing a rebuttal to a health study of the state’s only self-powered data center before it was published—even as agency employees warned they were not qualified to assess ...

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to conduct a comprehensive audit of every data center ...

President Donald Trump holds an image showing the size of Meta's new data center, during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on August 26, 2025. MANDEL NGAN ...

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the ...