Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team. The UK’s electricity ‘supergrid’ was built in the 1950s – designed for a different era that was reliant ...

In a few short years, the technology industry has transformed places like central Ohio, where farmland is giving way to data centers and computer chip factories. In a few short years, the technology ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

Seeking a remote (yet not too distant) escape in 2012, she settled on a roughly 160-acre plot of pancake-flat scrubland that she scooped for just $85,000 at the sandy outskirts of Yucca Valley near ...

A secluded Joshua Tree retreat, designed for off-grid living, is on the market for $14.995 million. The self-sustaining residence known as “The Saturn Haus” spans 4,240 square feet with four bedrooms ...

Massive data centers are pushing energy demand higher. Some people claim that AI will be a net benefit for the grid. The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so ...

U.S. power infrastructure—the intricate physical fabric that laces together generation, transmission, and distribution—is under intensifying strain. Outdated and overextended, it must now absorb ...

When the lights went out across the Iberian Peninsula in April, everything ground to a halt. Scores of people were trapped in Madrid’s underground metro system. Hospitals in Lisbon had to switch to ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States is experiencing an unprecedented surge in electricity demand driven by rapid technological advancements, including the expansion of artificial intelligence data ...