In the world of data centers, ensuring a facility will be online 99.999 percent of the time, is everything. Access to power is the number one priority when developers are trying to figure out where to ...

The project was built by EPC contractor SOLV Energy and will also do the long-term O&M of the Stillhouse Solar project. Image: Matrix Renewables. Independent power producer (IPP) Matrix Renewables has ...

The expansion is driven by new large-load customers, with data centers expected to account for 90% of the new power demand. Public hearings revealed divided opinions, with some supporting grid ...

Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of ...

Mr. Norris is a doctoral student at Duke University studying electric power systems. Amy Wasserman and her husband were stunned when the energy bill for their home in Wilmington, Del., topped $500 in ...

From steelworkers to Starbucks baristas, labor unions are shaping the next wave of worker power. In this TED podcast, political scientist Margaret Levi explains how unions protect rights, raise wages, ...

The latest Consumer Price Index shows that the average electric bill went up more than 5% from September 2024 to September 2025. That's faster than the inflation rate for the same period. Conventional ...

Backup generators are gaining a new lease on life in data centers. For decades, they have been a rarely used part of the infrastructure, existing for those moments when other power sources fail. But ...

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 ...

“AI” needs a lot of computing resources, which is why new data centers are cropping up anywhere there’s cheap land. But powering all those hungry servers takes a lot of energy, and overburdened power ...

In recent weeks, shares of hydrogen and PEM fuel cell solutions provider Plug Power have rallied by almost 150% on massive volume. Speculative investors and momentum traders have started to chase the ...

Nvidia makes the chips that support artificial intelligence, making it something of a picks-and-shovels play on AI. AI needs to "live" somewhere, which favors real estate investment trusts. AI needs ...