Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has approved the High Impact Large Load (HILL) policy to streamline grid connections for large electricity consumers, including data centers and manufacturers, ensuring ...

America’s electric grid is in grave danger. After decades of relatively flat national electricity demand, a surge of tech data centers, artificial intelligence, and other Big Tech electricity demand ...

Utilities and Silicon Valley are looking for creative ways to manage accelerating electricity demands. America’s digital economy is turning electricity into a growth industry after years of flat ...

ERCOT data obtained by the Houston Chronicle reveals the Texas counties where five or more large data centers are seeking to connect to the state's power grid.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Big Tech’s appetite for energy is just about visible from the east coast of Scotland.

There is a rising chorus of concern across the energy industry that the electric grid is facing a surge in power use that our infrastructure won’t be able to handle. The historical stewards of our ...

As 2023 ended, it was time to reflect. In the technological world, the staggering amount of big-data being produced by digital technologies made headlines. Globally, it was said the worldwide of new ...