In early 2020, the prevailing narrative in the power sector was a continuation story of the developments from the decade before: renewable buildout will keep compounding, thermal capacity will keep ...

Imagine a restaurant open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week that always maintains a full staff. With the exception of weekend nights and the lunch rush, the restaurant will be empty a lot of the time. But ...

Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75 billion in cash, plus the assumption of the company’s debt. The acquisition, which was ...

Alphabet, which depends on Google’s search engine and other online services for most of its revenue, is buying out Intersect in its entirety after purchasing a stake in the San Francisco-based startup ...

Michigan regulators unanimously approved a request from utility DTE Energy Co. to power a massive data center development planned by Oracle and OpenAI, during a contentious hearing where some members ...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - France's TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), opens new tab said on Tuesday it had signed a 21-year power supply deal with Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, pledging to supply 1 ...

Illinois is running out of power. That’s the word from state analysts trying to figure out whether there are enough sources of electricity to keep the lights on in the coming years. The outlook is ...

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The energy regulator is facing pressure from the Trump administration to speed the rollout of data centers to support AI development. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is planning to take up a ...

Ireland has lifted a de facto ban on connecting new data centers to the electricity grid around Dublin — a move that gives the industry long-awaited clarity on the requirements for building new ...

Data center logistics are becoming harder and harder to fathom as the centralization of compute power continues to scale beyond all reasonable proportions. We've reported extensively on the incredible ...

HOUSTON — ERCOT is speaking up about the growth in data centers across the state. They said they’re seeing applications for the large load centers come in at record rates. These large load centers ...