As Raleigh prepares to implement water restrictions on Monday amid the ongoing drought, attention is turning to how much water large data centers could use and how that demand is managed during dry ...

A new Gardner Policy Institute report digs into the details of data center development. Utah is on track to triple its data center capacity in the next few years. Water, energy and environmental ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

U.S. utility companies are planning to invest $1.4 trillion over the next five years to update the nation's ailing power grid as the data center boom intensifies the need for electricity. That's ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (April 3, 2026) — The Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel is calling on the state’s electric utilities to prioritize federal funding and cost-saving technologies when modernizing Ohio ...

Damon Cox opens a gift (a solar panel) for the Ray D. Nixon Power Plant during the coal power plant's retirement party Tuesday, March 31, 2026, at OCC Brewing in Old Colorado City. The retirement ...

Texas is poised to displace Virginia as home to the most data centers in the U.S. within the next five years, raising questions about how the state will manage the growth and how utilities will pay ...

Be very careful before you decide to use a certain grill brush to clean your grill. Nexgrill is recalling more than 10.2 million Metal Wire Gristle Grill Brushes sold at Home Depot because the metal ...

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

At POWERGEN 2026, conversations that focused on the availability of power solutions dominated the event, many of which were connected to energy demands related to data center development. At DTECH, a ...

NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...