Browsing: Electricity
This summer’s heat is a live stress test for data centers — here’s what it’s revealing in real time
This summer has already produced three answers to questions the data center industry would have preferred to leave theoretical. In…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued tailored show-cause orders this week to six regional grid operators under its jurisdiction, directing…
Green energy infrastructure startup TAR has just raised a $27 million seed round to provide scalable on-site plug-and-play power infrastructure…
AI job fears are mostly a Democrat problem—and the 2026 midterms will be their ultimate test
Anxiety about AI is real, and it feels like it’s everywhere. Proclamations of AI-driven job losses and grassroots movements opposing…
Data centers could contribute to a more than 50% increase in some states’ utility prices by 2030
For years, the American power grid was a bastion of predictable stability. Throughout the 2010s, U.S. electricity demand remained flat…
New NRG CEO leans into growth with ‘bring your own power’ for the AI boom and ‘virtual power plants’
Robert Gaudette took over as the new CEO of power and electricity giant NRG Energy at the end of April…
Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers
Lake Tahoe doesn’t know where its power will come from after next ski season—and it’s a major problem for the…
You may have heard that solar energy is now the cheapest in history and thus energy industry types are lining…
The EU’s second major energy crisis in four years underscores the bloc’s fossil fuel vulnerability
Four years ago, Europe was taught a brutal lesson in energy security when Russian natural gas flows to the EU…
The story of the energy transition in 2025 was one of fast-paced growth and global adoption. That trend was always…












