We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

We set out to identify every data center in Maricopa County's energy capacity and identify how water use varied among ...
Bloomberg L.P.

What AI Bubble? BNEF Outlook for Data Center Power Use Rises 36%

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...
Engineering News-Record

Power Sector Debates New Federal Rules for Data Center 'Large Load' Links to Grid

Given marching orders by the U.S. Energy Dept. to boost artificial intelligence sector growth, independent agency Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) now must absorb nearly 200 diverging power ...
Forbes

Where Will New Data Center Power Be? And How Will It Work?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roaming the country, and asking people about their concerns on artificial intelligence, one can hear a lot about two things: job ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

Will data center demands strain Archbald power, water, wildlife?

ARCHBALD — Staback Park offers a sweeping view of the borough’s northern tier. Fields of brush and wetlands thicken into dense woods that insulate the park from all but a glint of lights from Business ...
The Beacon on MSN

Proposed Wyandotte data centers require a lot of power: Will that increase your bill?

Data centers could triple Wyandotte County's power demand. BPU says it can serve data centers without higher utility bills ...
Government Technology

Minnesota Plan Would Power Data Center With Solar, Wind

(TNS) — A power developer has a novel plan to build a $4 billion data center in rural southwestern Minnesota, as well as an armada of wind, solar and battery plants the company hopes will attract a ...
New Orleans City Business

Entergy breaks ground on power facility for giant Meta data center

Entergy Louisiana began construction Monday on a pair of gas power plants that will generate electricity for what will be the world’s largest data center. Entergy Corp., the largest investor-owned ...
MLive

DTE still expects approval for OpenAI, Oracle data center power despite delay

SALINE TWP., MI — DTE Energy officials still expect state regulators to approve special contracts for the utility to power what would be Michigan’s first hyperscale data center project in Saline ...
SpaceNews

Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux enters orbital data center race

Aetherflux plans to launch an initial demonstration satellite to test its space-based solar power technologies by 2026. Credit: Aetherflux TAMPA, Fla. — Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux has ...
Stars and Stripes

USS Nimitz reactors could power future land-based AI data center

A pair of nuclear reactors that have propelled a U.S. Navy supercarrier to hot spots around the world for half a century could end up repurposed to power a data center in Tennessee. HGP Intelligent ...