The United States power grid is being pushed harder than at any point in decades, and the strain is no longer theoretical.

Skyrocketing growth in demand, accelerating security threats, extreme weather events and increasing systemic vulnerabilities ...

Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging ...

The US power grid is under significant stress due to rapidly increasing electricity demand from AI data centers and electric vehicles, coupled with the retirement of traditional power plants. The grid ...

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 ...

The U.S. Midwest grid has teamed up with Microsoft , it said on Tuesday, in the latest instance of Big Tech turning to ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnered with the University of Tennessee to develop ...

Global tech and energy manufacturer Hitachi Energy announced a landmark $1 billion investment to expand the production of critical electrical grid infrastructure in the United States. A major reason ...

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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 ...