Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of ...

A model of the AI data center planned for Jeffersonville. The utility Indiana Michigan Power expects that by 2030, AI data centers planned for its territory will use more electricity every year than ...

Power lines extend north from Wildlands Conservancy's South Mountain Preserve in Emmaus, with the PPL Building in Center City Allentown visible in the background, on Aug. 16, 2025. The Pennsylvania ...

UPDATE: Following publication of this story on Thursday, Oct. 30, Michigan officials identified the data center being served by DTE as a project by ChatGPT creator OpenAI and partners in Saline ...

Data centers fueling the AI boom are driving up the nation’s demand for electricity — and possibly your utility bill along with it. There are several reasons power is getting more expensive in the US.

Amazon.com is asking the Oregon Public Utility Commission to address the failure of a Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility to provide contracted power to its four data centers in the utility’s territory.

Louisiana regulators have adopted a new rule that suspends certain consumer protections if utility companies need to quickly build power plants for certain industrial developments, including data ...

Theodore Kury is the Director of Energy Studies at the University of Florida’s Public Utility Research Center, which is sponsored in part by the Florida electric and gas utilities, the Florida Public ...

Electric bills in the Chicago area could go up as much as $70 in the next three years because of data centers, according to the Citizens Utility Board. The nonprofit utility watchdog is calling on ...

CLOVER — With debates raging nationwide about the influx of data center construction and the impact on utility services from the behemoth structures, a company building a $1 billion data center in ...

CyrusOne’s Jim Roche details how AI-driven workloads, high-density racks, and liquid cooling are transforming the data center–utility relationship. Only a decade ago, few in the power sector could ...

Democrats zeroed in on utilities and affordability to win Republican support in upset elections in Georgia and Virginia. Can the same playbook work in 2026? Democrats zeroed in on utilities and ...