WTVM

Alabama Power deploys new storm prediction technology ahead of spring severe weather season

AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - Alabama Power is preparing for the spring storm season with a new predictive technology designed to reduce power outage times and better position crews before storms hit. The ...
Electrek

Data centers are becoming power plants – this NJ project proves it

Calibrant Energy has signed a definitive agreement with Iron Mountain to build, own, and operate a 23-megawatt-hour (MWh) battery at the latter’s New Jersey data center. Data center as a clean energy ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
TechCrunch

DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter

Data centers face a conundrum: how to power increasingly dense server racks using equipment that relies on century-old technology. Traditional transformers are bulky and hot, but a new generation of ...
Inc

Data Centers Are About to Use as Much Power as Japan—and the Solutions Are Getting Weird

Global electricity consumption for data centers is set to more than double by 2030. According to the International Energy Agency, consumption will hit around 945 TWh in just four years. That’s roughly ...
Reuters

TotalEnergies to provide solar power to Google's Texas data centres

Feb 9 (Reuters) - French oil major TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), opens new tab on Monday signed two long-term deals to supply solar power to Google’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab data centres in Texas, as it ...
Digi Times

Infineon pivots capacity to AI power as automotive recovery drags

Infineon's decision to accelerate investment to expand AI power capacity is set to lift fiscal 2026 capital spending and intensify fab loading management, even as the company maintains a cautious view ...
Fast Company

How data centers provided power during Winter Storm Fern

Scrambling to meet higher than average demand, PJM, the nonprofit company that operates the grid serving much of the mid-Atlantic U.S., asked for federal permission to generate more power, even if it ...
AZ Central

Data centers guzzle Arizona's water and power. We calculated how much

The proliferation of data centers in Arizona raises concerns about the strain on the state's water and power resources. Existing and planned data centers in Maricopa County could nearly double the ...
The Conversation

Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand

Nikki Luke is a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. She receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She previously worked at the U.S. Department of Energy. Conor Harrison receives ...
The Texas Tribune

In the West Texas oil patch, companies plan gas power plants to run new data centers

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The Verge

It’s a new heyday for gas thanks to data centers

AI data centers are driving a surge in new gas projects. AI data centers are driving a surge in new gas projects. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a ...