The calendar power-up of which we speak is new, in a sense — but it actually has a familiar past, at least if you’ve been ...

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 ...

Illinois is running out of power. That’s the word from state analysts trying to figure out whether there are enough sources of electricity to keep the lights on in the coming years. The outlook is ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

Ireland has lifted a de facto ban on connecting new data centers to the electricity grid around Dublin — a move that gives the industry long-awaited clarity on the requirements for building new ...

Data center logistics are becoming harder and harder to fathom as the centralization of compute power continues to scale beyond all reasonable proportions. We've reported extensively on the incredible ...

From emails to social media to online shopping, banking and chatting — everything we rely on everyday goes through an AI data center. The biggest concentration of those centers anywhere in the world ...

HOUSTON — ERCOT is speaking up about the growth in data centers across the state. They said they’re seeing applications for the large load centers come in at record rates. These large load centers ...

Aetherflux has focused its efforts on space-based solar power, with the goal of "building an American power grid in space." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Heading to meetings in Silicon Valley, I often drive through Santa Clara, passing boxy buildings with few windows. They are data centers for local customers willing to pay for low latency. Data ...

When a derecho slammed into the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in 2020, Diana Lokenvitz had time for exactly one glance out her window. A wall of clouds had poured in from the west, swallowing Palo, Iowa, ...

With data centers flooding into Georgia, utility regulators face a big decision: Should they let Georgia Power Co. spend more than $15 billion to increase its electricity capacity by 50% over the next ...