Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has approved the High Impact Large Load (HILL) policy to streamline grid connections for large electricity consumers, including data centers and manufacturers, ensuring ...

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SPOKANE, Wash. — Avista confirmed on Tuesday that a potential "large load" project that the company is considering is a data center development. According to recent filings with the U.S. Securities ...

Tiger Data today introduced a managed PostgreSQL database service designed specifically for AI agents, saying conventional database architectures are poorly suited to a future in which software is ...

Spokane, WASH. -- Avista confirmed today that the 'large load customer' it entered into an agreement with that would consume as much electricity as half the utility's service area in Eastern ...

VMware Horizon Client authentication failure halts connections, especially when logging in from external networks, and is usually a sign of an SSL/TLS certificate validation failure or a network-level ...

Denmark’s grid operator Energinet has paused all new grid connection agreements after a 60-gigawatt queue, nearly nine times the country’s peak demand, overwhelmed the system. AI data centres are the ...

Personal Data Servers are the persistent data stores of the Bluesky network. It houses a user's data, stores credentials, and if a user is kicked off the Bluesky network the Personal Data Server admin ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has set a June 2026 deadline to act in a high-stakes rulemaking that could redefine how massive new power users—including AI-driven data centers—connect ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

In December, The Conversation hosted a webinar on AI’s revolutionary role in drug discovery and development. Science and technology editor Eric Smalley interviewed Jeffrey Skolnick, eminent scholar in ...

ROUND ROCK — The size of ERCOT’s large load interconnection requests — the majority of which are data centers wanting to connect to the grid — soared by nearly 150 gigawatts to 410 gigawatts in just ...