There are two global problems you probably don't like to think about. First, burning gas and coal is still heating up the planet. Second, the thousands of AI data centers popping up all over the ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

PJM Interconnection LLC is seeking 15 gigawatts of new power supplies in an emergency proposal to address potential electricity shortages stemming from the boom in artificial intelligence. The ...

Oracle Corp. agreed to purchase as much as 2.8 gigawatts of fuel-cell power from Bloom Energy Corp. to supply data centers for artificial intelligence work. An initial 1.2 gigawatts of capacity has ...

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.

The Energy Information Agency (EIA) told two U.S. Senators that it plans to require data centers to disclose details about their energy use, according to Wired. The development comes a month after ...

Data center development in Illinois faces growing regulation at local and state level as public opinion on the massive projects has shifted. Once welcomed in the suburbs, potential operators are ...

U.S. utility companies are planning to invest $1.4 trillion over the next five years to update the nation's ailing power grid as the data center boom intensifies the need for electricity. That's ...

U.S. utilities have begun an unprecedented spending surge, largely to meet ballooning power demand from data centers. Without proper oversight, this could mean higher electric bills for consumers, ...

The state House on Monday passed two bills intended to help the state and local governments grapple with the impacts of data centers, as communities across the commonwealth continue to deal with the ...