Right now, professionals across the power industry are asking themselves a variation of the same question: Can large-load data centers help, rather than hurt, the grid? While conversations continue ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

Sydney-headquartered renewable energy land acquisition brokerage Rok Solid is seeing data centre operators moving to regional sites to develop off-grid solutions using gas and solar in a bid to avoid ...

The control room at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on May 15, 2018. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is changing the way it evaluates its transmission capacity to ...

Texas has so many massive AI-related data centers in development that its grid operator is now considering reevaluating some projects that were previously approved. The Electric Reliability Council of ...

BRUSSELS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Long delays to get power grid connections are challenging Amazon's (AMZN.O), opens new tab plans to expand data centers in Europe, the company told Reuters, as industries ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans City Council voted to create an interim zoning district prohibiting data centers in the city during a special meeting, effectively blocking a proposed facility in ...

AI infrastructure is scaling fast, and its need for energy has moved firmly into the spotlight. News cycles are increasingly dominated by debates about AI’s impact on power systems, consumer energy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Energy Department order is supposed to help ERCOT avoid the need for rotating outages amid the ongoing Texas winter storm.

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is working on new ways to continue to strengthen the electric grid. Meanwhile, Texas is set to become the largest home for data ...

Texas' grid operator, ERCOT, is creating a new batch process to evaluate multiple large energy users simultaneously. The new rules are needed to handle a surge in connection requests from data centers ...