AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

As demand for artificial-intelligence compute continues to outpace the ability for data centers and power suppliers to catch up, Alphabet has made an aggressive move to expand its energy resources. On ...

For the first time ever, PJM, the grid operator managing electricity across 13 states including Ohio, couldn’t purchase 100 percent of the power it needs in its future electricity auction, and Today ...

Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohioans may soon feel the strain of a grid that’s adding massive new data centers faster than it can build the power to run them. The just completed PJM capacity auction — the tool ...

Drax Group Plc is drawing up plans to add one gigawatt of data-center capacity to secure the future of its power plant in northeast England. Drax’s shares have surged in recent weeks on the prospect ...

For decades, demand for electrical power has remained stable. Utilities could count on highly predictable growth patterns to guide their capacity planning. However, the power requirements of AI and ...

There’s not a single data center in the entire commonwealth that has not been built without the explicit approval of the local government — whether a board of supervisors, city council, or town ...

Public conversations about the proposed Hermantown data center are important for our region. We at Minnesota Power genuinely appreciate the community's questions about how electric rates and grid ...

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 ...