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 ...

Here’s what we learned about the power grid during the cold snap

Crypto powered down, data centers remained online and ice created a power-line fiasco.

Ex-Top Tesla Engineer Raises $140 Million To Rewire The Electric Grid

Heron Power, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy, is scaling up production of solid-state transformers that move power to the grid more efficiently.

Data Centers and Your Power Bill

Data centers can increase energy costs in two main ways. They have to be connected to the grid, which can require extra transmission lines, new power generation resources and other infrastructure ...
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New mega-project could radically reboot the power grid

The U.S. Department of Energy has produced what may be the most ambitious federal blueprint for overhauling the nation’s electricity transmission system in decades. Two major studies, released through ...
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Duke Energy hardens Florida power grid by putting hundreds of miles of lines underground

While it may not be hurricane season right now, utility crews in Pinellas County are spending the winter months buried in ...

Snow and cold scrambled CT’s power grid. Here’s how it stayed up

As more than a foot of snow fell on parts of CT on Jan. 25, a massive shift was taking place within power plants across New ...
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New York begins planning for data center boom, and its strain on the electric grid

Gov. Kathy Hochul says she wants tech companies to foot the bill for the mammoth energy costs that come with the facilities.