Power failures are no longer rare glitches in the background of modern life. In 2024 the US power grid faced 346 major ...

Electric vehicles have improved quickly, but a stubborn winter problem keeps resurfacing: when temperatures plunge, too many ...

Utilities use AI to balance real-time supply and demand. Retailers optimize logistics to cut energy waste. Hospitals ...

Artificial intelligence, automation, crypto mining, and cloud computing are putting increasing demand on electric utilities—and the power-hungry data centers these technologies rely on continue to ...

AI data centers are putting tremendous pressure on the US's already fragile power infrastructure. In addition to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, multiple Wall Street investment banks ...

AI models and the data centers filled with chips to power them require an enormous amount of power. And the industry is scrambling to keep pace. After a decade of largely flat electricity needs, ...

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The energy demand from data centers is expected to double by 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. But the US power grid, full of aging infrastructure, years-long connection ...

The US power grid is under mounting strain from aging infrastructure, slow interconnections and regional bottlenecks, while demand, complexity and variability are on the rise. Building a future-ready ...

Power bills for about a fifth of Americans are expected to continue to rise after the largest U.S. grid operator, PJM ...

The United States of America cannot win its 21st Century conflicts when it has a 20th-Century electrical grid.