New research reveals artificial intelligence (AI)-driven water demand is set to surge nearly 130% over the next 25 years. Power generation consumes about half of that, turning water into a potential ...

OpenAI said it would pay higher electricity prices for the giant data centers it is building across the U.S., the tech industry’s latest pledge to address fears about rising utility costs and ...

The company plans to build and pay for dedicated energy infrastructure to reduce the risk of AI data centers straining local grids and slowing expansion. OpenAI is moving to blunt one of the ...

Half of EV owners already use bidirectional power regularly. Three of four future EV owners are open to investing in a V2H setup. Most V2H car owners bought their EVs with backup power in mind.

With a massive artificial intelligence data center set to open in Independence, the city will reopen and majorly expand the capacity of a decades-old power plant to fuel it. Until then, the city is ...

The market is fixated on when Big Tech will generate economic value from the $400 billion-plus being poured into AI data center expansion annually. The market is missing the point.Monetization has ...

As the race to scale artificial intelligence computing accelerates, global technology companies are committing large sums to AI infrastructure. Capital spending is climbing rapidly, driving a sharp ...

Power prices in the largest U.S. grid rose sharply on Sunday as demand in a region with the world's largest concentration of ⁠energy-hungry data centers surpassed forecasts during a deep freeze ...

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

Microsoft has committed to “paying its way” to ensure its data centers will not ramp up residential utility rates, becoming the first major hyperscaler to publicly commit to a comprehensive framework ...

New England leans heavily on oil-fired power plants PJM generation outages surge Spot electricity prices rise to several hundred dollars per MWH BOSTON/HOUSTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Power plant outages ...