Browsing: Electricity
Electricity supply is increasingly outpacing demand in Europe as renewable energy capacity grows, making negative prices a more frequent occurrence.…
A NIMBY revolt is turning voters in Republican strongholds against the AI data-center boom
Silicon Valley and Washington sees data centers as the backbone of America’s AI future. Residents who live next to them…
Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part AI plan after identifying it as the ‘most problematic thing’
The immense electricity needs of AI computing was flagged early on as a bottleneck, prompting Alphabet’s Google Cloud to plan…
A World Bank expert thinks countries should leverage ‘small AI’—and avoid competing with the biggest tech giants
AI is expensive. Processors are expensive, data centers are expensive, power and water are expensive, data acquisition is expensive. Giants…
As voters demand affordability, Stanford economist argues for ‘temporary, targeted price controls’ with supply-side reforms
Price controls are literally a textbook example of a policy that creates market inefficiency, but an economist sees some merit…
Some consumers are paying to power data centers that don’t exist yet while states ask if demand forecasts are real — ‘Nobody really knows’
The forecasts are eye-popping: utilities saying they’ll need two or three times more electricity within a few years to power…
The U.S. Department of Energy aims to fast-track how to feed AI with energy by asking companies that develop electric…
Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout
On a quiet patch of former farmland in northeastern Louisiana, a fleet of excavators has leveled more than 2,000 acres…
States are taking action as electric bills rise amid data-center boom. ‘There’s a massive outcry’
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding…
States offer big incentives for data centers, but huge land, power, water needs create local friction
The explosive growth of the data centers needed to power America’s fast-rising demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing platforms…












