The story of power generation in 2025 was shaped in no small part by urgency. Load growth forecasts accelerated again, driven by artificial intelligence, data centers and industrial expansion. At the ...

States with booming data center construction are seeing spikes in new power needs. Much of it is being met by coal and solar. First came predictions of skyrocketing electricity consumption from data ...

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 ...

AI has turned data centers into the hottest infrastructure asset on the planet, but the real bottleneck is no longer land, fiber, or chips. It is electricity. Behind the exuberant forecasts for ...

Programs designed to enable load flexibility and demand response in data centers are becoming more critical as constraints on the electric grid intensify. A survey of U.S. energy professionals shows ...

Voter anger over surging electricity prices is spreading across the country and across partisan lines as energy-guzzling data centers put increasing strain on the power grid and ratepayers' wallets.