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 ...

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.

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 ...

(WSET) — As Virginia's data center industry continues to expand, state regulators are weighing a decision that could affect millions of Dominion Energy customers: Who should pay for the billions of ...

A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses because of electricity needs of data centers. By Ivan Penn See more ...

North America's electric grid regulator issued its highest-urgency warning this year after documenting a new category of reliability threat: AI training campuses large enough that when their automatic ...

In an aerial view, high voltage power lines run along the electrical power grid on May 16, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The United States government is using a law ...

As a brutal heat wave hits much of the central and eastern United States this week, the Department of Energy wants power-hungry data centers to help ease the strain on the grid. The Energy Department ...

A heat dome is causing record energy demand on the electric grid powering Ohio and other states. The U.S. Department of Energy has approved emergency measures to protect the power grid from July 1 to ...