Stakeholders, experts and lawmakers are trying to predict the future of the data center industry, including its energy needs ...

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has allowed data centers to connect directly to power plants in mid-Atlantic ...

Rising electricity prices are being pinned on data centers, but demand isn’t what makes power expensive. A simple story has taken hold in American politics: Big Tech is consuming vast amounts of ...

An Energy Department report last year found that data centers consumed about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023. That share is projected to rise to 6.7% to 12% by 2028. The growth of data centers ...

California legislators considered dozens of bills related to artificial intelligence this year. That’s a number that’s climbed quickly over the last couple years as lawmakers grapple with the ...

Planned data center construction shows no signs of fading, with new additions to require 2.7x — nearly triple — the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade, according to a new ...

As data centers hurtle to the forefront of the national debate over artificial intelligence (AI) and energy costs, northern ...

Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Your electricity bills are higher, and experts say data centers are a key reason. The central Ohio region has seen one of the ...

At least four major data center projects are in the works in southern Michigan. Some communities, like Salem Township, are less than thrilled about data centers and the power demands they require.

Data centers are the same kind of extraction, only this time the corporations are hiding them behind fences, nondisclosure ...