Across the U.S., new AI-driven data centers are causing a significant increase in power demand. Carbon Direct projects that data center capacity in the U.S. will grow from roughly 25 GW in 2024 to 120 ...

A Pennsylvania utility commission study models rising power operator reliability risks as data center demand grows faster ...

AI Load Order analysis of FERC’s June and July 2026 actions, data center tariffs, grid reliability, and efficiency regulation ...

In a worst-case scenario, the modeled loss of load expectation is “over 100 times worse than PJM’s planning criterion,” indicating an expectation of “more than 13 days with loss of load events per ...

How much electricity will the U.S. need to support new data centers popping up around the country? Spurred by the rise of advanced artificial intelligence technologies (including generative AI models ...

In 2018, data center power consumption as a whole reached a total of 205 TWh, almost 1% of the global electricity supply, 1 solidifying their fundamental role in the worldwide network infrastructure ...

For decades, even very large electric customers fit inside a familiar planning model. A factory, refinery, industrial campus, hospital complex, hospital system, or manufacturing facility requested ...

How electricity tariffs can protect households and small businesses from data centers and crypto mines’ enormous energy demands Utilities across the country are receiving requests to supply vast ...

US regulators and grid operators are calling on data centers to cut their power use when the grid is overloaded, saying it is the only way to connect large-load customers as quickly as they are ...