WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - Maine lawmakers have passed a bill that could make it the first U.S. state to put a moratorium on new data centers as ‌opposition to the electricity-hungry facilities ...

Xcel Energy submitted a proposal to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission aimed at addressing rising concerns about the growth of its business with data center customers. The energy provider said ...

Exelon (EXC) has a 19 GW load pipeline with 45% secured through Transmission Security Agreements, supported by 26% CAGR data center load growth in northern Illinois, while Citi initiated coverage with ...

In this roundup of space news, we talk about NASA's upcoming Artemis launch, space-based data centers and the new sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary. I really love space. I love astronomy, deep-space ...

To address time to power, one of the biggest constraints currently slowing data center deployment, EPRI is launching Flex MOSAIC, a uniform flexibility classification framework for large electric ...

(l-r): Thomas Sisto, Breana Wheeler, Anurag Bajpayee, and Jason Peart discussed the problems AI data centers present and ways to minimize them. Credit: Sammie Seamon Data centers have been around for ...

When the Electric Reliability Council of Texas designed its process for connecting big industrial users to the statewide grid, it envisioned receiving from eight to 15 such requests every three months ...

This is the third article in Womble Bond Dickinson’s Energy & Natural Resources thought leadership series titled “ Powering the Future: Legal Challenges in Grid Modernization and Transmission". This ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is forcing utilities to confront a question they have not faced in more than a decade: how to meet a surge in electricity demand. Across the country, ...

TotalEnergies just landed a massive solar deal to power Google’s expanding Texas data centers. The company signed two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity, or ...

The data center industry is racing toward a power crisis that technology alone will not be able to solve, according to Uptime Institute’s 2026 data center predictions report. “Critical digital ...