Electricity prices are surging, voters are growing angry, and the artificial intelligence industry's data centers are increasingly a target for blame with U.S. mid-term elections on the horizon.

Hyperscalers and data center developers are in a pickle: They all want to add computing power tomorrow, but utilities frequently play hard to get, citing years-long waits for grid connections. “All ...

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I. increases, ...

Massive data centers are pushing energy demand higher. Some people claim that AI will be a net benefit for the grid. The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so ...

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires ...

Utilities are using AI to modernize the aging grid with tools to manage growing energy demands. Predictive maintenance and genAI assistants are predicting grid risk and reducing repair time. This ...

Stakeholders at PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest grid operator, on Wednesday rejected all 12 final proposals for regulating the rapidly growing data center industry, leaving the Maryland ...

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