Given marching orders by the U.S. Energy Dept. to boost artificial intelligence sector growth, independent agency Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) now must absorb nearly 200 diverging power ...

U.S. power grids are struggling to keep up with surging data center demand, forcing operators to offer “bring your own generation” or conditional grid access to hyperscalers. Big Tech is pushing back ...

North Carolina is facing a surge in electricity demand, largely driven by the growth of data centers. A state task force is exploring how to manage rising power needs without overburdening residential ...

Electrical substation infrastructure increasingly sits at the front of data center project planning as utilities tighten grid access and require major power upgrades ...

PJM is asking federal regulators to approve changes to its rules governing “behind-the-meter” power agreements through which data centers or other industrial customers buy a portion of their ...

To address time to power, one of the biggest constraints currently slowing data center deployment, EPRI is launching Flex MOSAIC, a uniform flexibility classification framework for large electric ...

AI data centers feature extremely high power densities, with loads that can ramp up or down within seconds, creating significant challenges for power system stability. Power quality issues such as ...

The proliferation of data centers in Arizona raises concerns about the strain on the state's water and power resources. Existing and planned data centers in Maricopa County could nearly double the ...

Big Tech firms are requesting hundreds of gigawatts of power demand from data centers to connect to the U.S. grids. But aging grid infrastructure in key regional markets and grid investments lagging ...