The United States will need 11 more gigawatts of electricity at this summer’s peak than it did a year ago, according to the ...

AI data centers now consume electricity equivalent to midsize US states and planned expansions in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, ...

America’s aging electric grid is struggling to meet modern demands—especially amid the AI boom. Overhauling it will be no ...

Power is at the center of Americans’ lives. It lets us cool our homes, keeps them lit, and charges our electronics.But the more things we plug into our aging power grid, the more strained it becomes.

PJM Interconnection — which oversees the grid for some of the densest data center developments on Earth — wants to overhaul ...

Power plants on the largest U.S. electric grid received a record payout of nearly $1 billion to cover their losses in the ...

Tech companies charging ahead with artificial intelligence have a problem: AI’s rapid growth is colliding headlong with a finite amount of available energy and computing power.

Dubbed Agora, the large-load test bed is funded by the US DOE’s Office of Electricity and industry partners, who played a key ...

NextEra’s $66.8B Dominion acquisition creates America’s largest regulated utility amid soaring AI-driven electricity demand ...

On the Monday, March 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing the U.S. power grid in new ways. How can we ensure its reliability?

Jan 30 (Reuters) - Power demand ‌on the largest U.S. electric grid is ‌expected to peak just shy of the all-time winter record on Friday, as the PJM Interconnection region covering one in five ...