The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

PJM Interconnection LLC is seeking 15 gigawatts of new power supplies in an emergency proposal to address potential electricity shortages stemming from the boom in artificial intelligence. The ...

Silicon Valley has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building ever-larger AI data centers that require as much electricity as hundreds of thousands of US homes—but that massive ...

Seattle residents could soon feel the effects of artificial intelligence in their electricity bills, as multiple companies explore building large-scale data centers that would dramatically increase ...

FESTUS, Mo. — Festus residents have filed a lawsuit against the city over a $6 billion hyperscale data center project. The suit, filed on Wednesday, comes after months of public outcry and about a ...

U.S. utility companies are planning to invest $1.4 trillion over the next five years to update the nation's ailing power grid as the data center boom intensifies the need for electricity. That's ...

An AI data center has broken ground outside of Abernathy, according to a company news release issued Thursday. Aligned Data Centers, a developer and operator of data centers, officially broke ground ...

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

County leaders an hour south of Atlanta approve one of Georgia’s largest data center campuses after 15 months of debate. An aerial image from May shows a large wooded area near Newnan, where the $17 ...

The booming data center industry faces growing pushback from communities and politicians. Industry executives worry that there hasn't been a coordinated response to its image problems. As states ...

Plans for a huge expansion of Meta's Louisiana data center took their first steps before Louisiana electricity regulators on Wednesday, with Entergy granted an initial green light for an expedited ...