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 ...

Illinois faces potential power shortages and price hikes due to retiring fossil fuel plants and rising energy demand from data centers. A new report from three state agencies projects these shortfalls ...

The Georgia Public Service Commission unanimously approved Georgia Power's $15-billion grid expansion plan. The expansion will be primarily powered by five new combined cycle gas units to meet energy ...

Even with less available electric power capacity during cold weather in Texas, battery storage systems are reducing the risk of power outages this winter, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas ...

SOUTH BOSTON, Va.—In a factory not far from the North Carolina state line, Robin Cisco walks her fingers across hundreds of feet of paper-insulated copper wire. Cisco is a “winder” at Hitachi Energy’s ...

Surging data center development is creating havoc across the territory of PJM Interconnection, a power transmission system spanning 13 states in the mid-Atlantic and Midwest and encompassing many of ...

Georgia Power seeks approval for a $16B plan to add 10 gigawatts to the grid, driven largely by data center demand. The utility says rates could drop by 2029, but customers and advocacy groups are ...

ULANQAB, China—The U.S. invented the most powerful artificial-intelligence models and controls access to the most advanced computer chips, but China has an ace to play in the global AI contest. China ...

Texas is rapidly emerging as an epicenter of artificial intelligence-driven energy demand, with an unprecedented surge in large-load power requests, a wave now dominated by AI data centers rather than ...

DALLAS, Texas — Summer heat, year-round storms, and the memory of the deep freeze in 2021 have worn down many Texas homeowners. For Nancy Jones in Far North Dallas, outages have been so frequent she’s ...

Image art via ChatGPT-5. As data centers and advanced manufacturing accelerate across the United States, utilities are facing load requests that far exceed traditional planning timelines. The demand ...

HAVANA (AP) — A blackout hit Havana and the rest of the western half of Cuba on Wednesday, leaving millions of people without power on an island struggling with chronic outages blamed on a crumbling ...