A small utility powering the California side of Lake Tahoe has a year to find a new source of energy at a time when unprecedented demand from the rapid rise of data centers in the Nevada desert is ...

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 ...

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.

DeepSeek is about to make noise again. The company that rattled the AI industry with R1 back in early 2025 is reportedly weeks away from launching V4 — and the specs being discussed are genuinely ...

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 ...

In a few short years, the technology industry has transformed places like central Ohio, where farmland is giving way to data centers and computer chip factories. In a few short years, the technology ...

Large tech companies are just beginning to share financial details on the massive amounts of power they’ve locked in to run their AI data centers. But for some investors, those details aren’t nearly ...

AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, according to the results of a UK trial, a finding that could have implications for electricity systems worldwide. Grids from the US ...

HERMANTOWN, Minn. — Minnesota Power announced a partnership with Google to supply energy for a new data center in Hermantown. In a press release Tuesday, Minnesota Power announced the data center ...

Manufacturers respond with gigawatt-scale deployments, fast-start technology, and expanded production capacity. The global appetite for electricity has never been more insatiable, and at the heart of ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...