The state’s largest utility is building power plants and a web of transmission lines to carry electricity to satisfy unprecedented demand, mostly from new server farms. Rachael Maszk and her daughters ...

What we know so far: The Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA) in Utah has provisionally approved a new hyperscale AI data center project estimated to consume nearly 9 GW of power – more ...

Tech companies, including Microsoft and Meta, have been falling in love with natural gas lately, rushing to build power plants fed by the fossil fuel to drive their data centers. But their embrace ...

SPARTANBURG — NorthMark, the company behind the data center under construction on South Pine Street, said that its recent request for a ninefold increase in power is consistent with its vision for the ...

Everything is bigger in Texas — and that includes the data center demand straining its power grid. Texas data center development has become so rampant that the state is on track to become the world's ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

The flood of data centers signaling interest in Texas keeps growing to ever more impossible heights, prompting questions and anxiety about how the state’s power grid can keep up. To manage this growth ...

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SpaceX plans to leverage its experience with the Starlink constellation for its proposed orbital data center constellation of up to one million satellites. Credit: SpaceX Here’s the version of the ...

Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...