Power has become one of the biggest bottlenecks in rolling out new AI data centers. That's creating an opening for investors.

Tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are rushing to secure sufficient electricity to power their data centers. The rise in AI demand strains the tech firms’ climate commitment, ...

Electrical substation infrastructure increasingly sits at the front of data center project planning as utilities tighten grid access and require major power upgrades ...

Boom Supersonic wants to build the world’s first commercial supersonic airliner. Founded in 2014, the company set out to make air travel dramatically faster — up to twice the speed of today’s ...

New A.I. sites could drive up your power bill. We look at possible solutions. By Claire Brown Tech companies are investing billions of dollars to build energy-hungry data centers at a time when demand ...

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With data center developers in Texas and most other states now commonly deploying fossil fuel generators as backup power sources, a nascent industry from the renewable side of power generation—battery ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...