Surging AI power demand has transitioned from a niche tech industry concern into a central pillar of national energy policy. While most of the public focus on artificial intelligence remains on the ...

Texas has been flooded with data center requests to join its power grid. The state seeks to sort out who actually wants to do business in Texas — and which projects are purely speculative. Data ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock America's electric grid is beginning to feel the strain of the artificial intelligence boom. Federal ...

At SNEC 2026 in Shanghai, energy storage was no longer positioned as a supporting segment of solar. It emerged as a central theme in its own right. This was evident in exhibition halls, where battery ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week approved orders to remove bottlenecks that had risked slowing the AI boom, aiming to handle requests for connecting large-load facilities such as ...

Federal regulators on Thursday took steps aimed at both speeding up the buildout of AI data centers and reducing costs. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed regional electric grid ...

It seems like a major U.S. energy regulator is trying to have it all. It wants grid operators to move faster in connecting power-hungry data centers, while also keeping costs down for regular ...

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A Republican senator introduced legislation Wednesday that, if it is adopted, would set federal rules around how data centers can plug into the electric grid as AI energy consumption has become a ...

Switch, the Las Vegas-based technology-infrastructure company, wants to build a new data center at its mammoth southwest valley campus. Clark County commissioners — acting as the zoning board — will ...

The Panasonic battery plant in De Soto is pictured on Sept. 9, 2024. Panasonic has announced plans to repurpose production lines inside its U.S. plants, including De Soto, in order to produce energy ...

The race to secure power for AI data centers has spilled over into some unusual places, including the automotive world. Battery recycler Redwood Materials kicked off the trend last year with a new ...