Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors on Friday tried to step up pressure on the operator of the nation’s ...

A new grid risk is emerging in America’s data center boom: what happens when dozens of massive facilities disconnect from the power grid at the same time, The Wall Street Journal writes.  In two ...

America’s biggest power grid operator is being remade by artificial intelligence, not through software, but through steel, concrete, and megawatts. A wave of new data centers built to feed AI models ...

As these facilities proliferate, the stakes are rising. Data centers could account for up to 57% of Virginia’s electricity use by 2030 and as much as 17% nationwide, up from about 4% to 5% today, ...

A transmission line stands in a cornfield in Chanceford Township, York County on Sept. 13, 2021. Power grid observers say the operator responsible for the regional flow of electricity is not doing ...

BOSTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. electric grid operators on Saturday stepped up precautions to avoid rotating blackouts as frigid weather hitting half of the country's population stressed their ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors on Friday tried to step up pressure on the operator of the nation's largest electric grid to take urgent steps to boost ...