Texas' power grid is getting slammed with more big requests than ever, and most of them are coming from the booming world of artificial intelligence. ERCOT reported this week that large load ...

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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 ...

Modeling energy growth associated with data centers and smart integration through load flexibility and real-time coordination unlocks a new frontier in grid modernization. Oak Ridge National ...

Amid Ford’s shift away from making large electric vehicles, the automaker is adding a new product line to find a home for its batteries. Ford said Monday that instead of scuttling plans to build the ...

Ford is jumping into the battery energy storage business, betting that booming demand from data centers and the electric grid can absorb the EV battery capacity it says it’s not using. To achieve this ...

Everything really is bigger in Texas. The state’s primary grid operator reported this month that large power consumers will need 225 gigawatts of electricity over the next five years. Almost ...

The amount of ERCOT‘s large load interconnection requests ballooned to more than 230 gigawatts this year, a massive increase from the 63 gigawatts reported in December 2024. The agency, which operates ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is urging federal energy officials to consider comments from consumer advocates, state utility regulators and power companies before deciding a case that could determine how AI data ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohioans may soon feel the strain of a grid that’s adding massive new data centers faster than it can build the power to run them. The just completed PJM capacity auction — the tool ...

In the sunbaked outskirts of El Paso, Texas, construction crews are laying the foundations for Meta’s “AI‑optimized” 1.2-million-square-foot data center, designed to house thousands of servers and ...