Utilities warn that new AI-optimized facilities can consume as much power as a small city, straining an already aging grid ...

As data center demand surges, grid access—not land—is deciding which projects move forward, forcing builders to rethink power infrastructure, costs and schedules before construction begins.

Consumers see data centers as the energy-hungry culprits behind rising energy prices. Utilities see data centers as large customers who could help finance grid upgrades. As the data center boom ...

There are not many desirable options for accommodating the electricity needs of data centers. And some of the possibilities are especially bad—bad for consumers, bad for the environment and even bad ...

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

NEW ALBANY, Ohio (WCMH) — AEP Ohio said it would take years to build the infrastructure needed to power central Ohio’s many new data centers, but some New Albany projects are taking matters into their ...