PJM forecast record demand of 166.2 gigawatts at about 6 p.m. EDT Thursday Wholesale power costs rose 68% to $40 billion in the first five months, PJM watchdog says Data center demand accounted for $3 ...

NEW YORK, June 30 (Reuters) - Members of the PJM Interconnection on Tuesday voted to advance a plan to source more electricity to serve the rising data center demand that threatens to overtake ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The federal government is authorizing Ohio's power grid operator to request that data centers and other large energy users move to ...

As triple-digit temperatures engulf much of the United States, the Trump administration wants grid managers to require the use of backup power that often goes unused. By Ivan Penn and Hilary Howard As ...

The U.K.’s National Grid NG0.08%increase; up pointing triangle agreed to invest $1.75 billion in U.S. integrated power solutions company Joulent as it seeks to capitalize on the country’s rapidly ...

Data Center Alley is facing a climate test. Searing temperatures this week could push energy demand to record levels on the mid-Atlantic’s electric grid, which fuels the country’s data center boom in ...

The AI bubble is slowly unraveling — kind of. Companies gobbled up RAM to power data centers, which turned 2026 into an expensive year for tech, to the point where certain manufacturers are producing ...

The Global Pact for Urban Data Centers was announced at London Climate Action Week and will set standards for low-carbon energy use and the more effective integration of data centers into urban ...

When last we looked at the state of the US grid, the ongoing explosion in solar energy had turned it into a major contributor, but one that still lagged well behind fossil-fuel-powered generation. So ...

A Wood Mackenzie analysis says data center and grid buildouts are consuming copper and aluminum while a McKinsey study cites opportunities and risks for service centers. “Most assessments of data ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) has released a report for distribution transformers in the electrical power grid. The report, prepared by researchers at the National ...

Texas has been flooded with data center requests to join its power grid. The state seeks to sort out who actually wants to do business in Texas — and which projects are purely speculative. Data ...