No region does more to fuel the U.S. economy than the Midwest, yet rural communities are so often shortchanged and unrecognized. However, with the July 4 passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” ...

For four straight days this month, Oleksandra Mazur had no light, no heat and no running water. Russian strikes had left her Odesa neighborhood completely without electricity, knocking out other basic ...

Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75 billion in cash, plus the assumption of the company’s debt. The acquisition, which was ...

Everyone — politicians and the public — is talking about energy costs. In particular, they’re talking about data centers that drive artificial intelligence systems and their increasing energy demand, ...

Even with less available electric power capacity during cold weather in Texas, battery storage systems are reducing the risk of power outages this winter, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas ...

Data centers are already among the world’s hungriest power users, and artificial intelligence (AI) is pushing their energy consumption to new heights. The International Energy Agency expects data ...

SOUTH BOSTON, Va.—In a factory not far from the North Carolina state line, Robin Cisco walks her fingers across hundreds of feet of paper-insulated copper wire. Cisco is a “winder” at Hitachi Energy’s ...

Georgia Power seeks approval for a $16B plan to add 10 gigawatts to the grid, driven largely by data center demand. The utility says rates could drop by 2029, but customers and advocacy groups are ...

Texas is rapidly emerging as an epicenter of artificial intelligence-driven energy demand, with an unprecedented surge in large-load power requests, a wave now dominated by AI data centers rather than ...

DALLAS, Texas — Summer heat, year-round storms, and the memory of the deep freeze in 2021 have worn down many Texas homeowners. For Nancy Jones in Far North Dallas, outages have been so frequent she’s ...

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 ...

Google and NextEra to Launch AI-Powered Grid by 2026 Your email has been sent NextEra Energy has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to develop multiple gigawatt-scale data center campuses ...