For the past two years, the conversation around AI infrastructure has focused on chips, models, and capital. In practice, that isn’t what’s slowing projects down. What matters is electricity–where it ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHEYENNE — Plans are moving forward on a proposed power plant and a data center campus south of Cheyenne following the Laramie County Board of Commissioners’ approval last week of the two facilities’ ...

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...

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 ...

Google already owns a minority stake in Intersect from a previous funding round. Once the deal closes, Intersect will be expected to help bring new data centers and power generation online faster, ...

Boom Supersonic is putting its engine technology to work on the ground to power the AI boom, and help fund development of its full-size Overture aircraft. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

As the AI surge progresses, the most significant hurdle is unlikely to be the availability of chips or components. Instead, it will be electricity, cooling, and physical space. On our planet, data ...

Even as a data center building boom sends power demand skyrocketing and strains grids across the country, energy developers have canceled 1,891 new power generation projects in 2025, according to a ...

Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...