Big tech is increasingly promising to pay for spiking power costs. But there’s not much to enforce it

As an electricity crunch drives bills higher around the country, big tech companies building power-hungry data centers are increasingly offering to pay for more of the energy they consume, so everyday ...
Morning Call PA

Feds pave the way for Big Tech to plug data centers right into power plants in scramble for energy

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Federal regulators will allow tech companies to effectively plug massive data centers directly into power plants, issuing a long-awaited order Thursday, as the Trump ...
CNBC

Utilities grapple with a multibillion question: How much AI data center power demand is real

AI companies are regularly announcing large data center deals that are fueling a rally in the utility sector. But the utilities on the frontline of the AI boom are struggling to figure out how much of ...
TechRepublic

Power Is the New Gold Rush for AI Data Centers

Power Is the New Gold Rush for AI Data Centers Your email has been sent In 1849, the 49ers chased gold. In 2025, the new rush is for power. Utilities and grid operators are overwhelmed with requests ...
EDN

The transition from 54-V to 800-V power in AI data centers

While compute devices such as CPUs, GPUs, and XPUs are stealing the limelight in the artificial intelligence (AI) era, there is an increasing realization that powering AI at scale demands new power ...
POWER Magazine

POWER Interview: CyrusOne Expert on How AI Is Reshaping the Data Center–Utility Relationship

CyrusOne’s Jim Roche details how AI-driven workloads, high-density racks, and liquid cooling are transforming the data center–utility relationship. Only a decade ago, few in the power sector could ...