Data center leaders at Gallagher, a Chicago-based consulting firm, discuss energy constraints on the construction boom and onsite risks.

Data centers are expanding fast, driving rising energy and water use. Sustainable design will determine whether this growth ...

Without storage, solar generation plummets at sundown, so battery systems are playing a larger role in infrastructure.​ ...

Bloom Energy finds itself at the center of an energy crunch, and it has led to tremendous retu rns.

Tech giant's Hyperion campus in Richland Parish is driving one of the largest utility expansions in state history.

During a cold spell on Jan. 23, 2025, Dominion Energy hit an all-time peak load with 24,678 megawatts of electricity use recorded. But that’s nothing compared to what future data centers will demand, ...

Batteries are the key to this uninterrupted power supply, but we have a ready source of materials waiting for us.

U.S. power grids are struggling to keep up with surging data center demand, forcing operators to offer “bring your own generation” or conditional grid access to hyperscalers. Big Tech is pushing back ...

Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret ...

Renewable energy developer WBS Power has announced plans for a 3.2 GW data centre campus in the municipality of Choczewo in northern Poland's Pomerania region. It says the nuclear power plant planned ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

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