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America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...

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NATCHITOCHES, La. (KSLA) - The Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) voted to loosen restrictions on building data centers in the state during a meeting held Wednesday (Dec. 17), with the measure ...

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 ...

So many data center requests have flooded into Texas that the demand is impossible to meet, energy experts say. Speculative projects are clogging the pipeline to connect to the state's electric grid, ...

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has secured an extension to its existing frame agreement with Equinor for the provision of subsea inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) services. As a part of the ...

The amount of ERCOT‘s large load interconnection requests ballooned to more than 230 gigawatts this year, a massive increase from the 63 gigawatts reported in December 2024. The agency, which operates ...

Texas' power grid is getting slammed with more big requests than ever, and most of them are coming from the booming world of artificial intelligence. ERCOT reported this week that large load ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission took another step this week toward addressing the growth of what they call “large-load” power customers, like data centers. Earlier ...