Browsing: Electricity
Jerome Powell says you’re right to blame data centers for making your bills more expensive
Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged Wednesday that the AI-fueled data center boom is contributing to inflation, pushing back on the…
“A bend in the trajectory”: U.S. data center buildouts hit snags because of power grid limits
Data center development is slowing down, according to a new report from energy analytics firm Wood Mackenzie. In Q4 2025,…
The world’s EVs were already replacing 70% of Iran’s oil exports. The war just made that matter
The war in Iran has already transformed the world’s energy map. It might yet redraw America’s auto market. Now in…
Google and Tesla know electricity is expensive. They’re teaming up to bring you an alternative.
If it seems like your electricity bill is higher than it’s ever been, you’re probably right. Americans’ electricity costs rose…
China has been known to grow its coal power and renewables capacities in tandem for some years now. While the…
Americans are entering another brutal winter paying more for power than ever, and the cold only magnifies a trend that…
President Donald Trump has always been crystal clear about his disdain for wind farms, but his second term’s landmark effort…
President Donald Trump offered Silicon Valley an extraordinary deal on Wednesday: Build your own nuclear power plants to fuel AI,…
Electricity as the new eggs: Affordability concerns will swing the midterms just like the 2024 election, Bill McKibben says
That sun has provided him cheap power for 25 years, and this month he installed his fourth iteration of solar…
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt jumps into the AI data center business with a failed Texas railroad
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting into the AI and data center race with his new startup, and he’s…












