The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is forcing utilities to confront a question they have not faced in more than a decade: how to meet a surge in electricity demand. Across the country, ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday during his State of the Union address that his administration has told major technology companies they must build their own power plants for their data centers, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. During Tuesday night's State of the Union address, President Donald Trump announced a new initiative to ensure data center owners and ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

Global electricity consumption for data centers is set to more than double by 2030. According to the International Energy Agency, consumption will hit around 945 TWh in just four years. That’s roughly ...

IMPERIAL COUNTY, CA, UNITED STATES, January 29, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings Inc. (“CTR”), a U.S. geothermal resource ...

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft is exploring using superconducting ‌power lines in its data centers, ‌which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server warehouses by making them ...

Boom Supersonic wants to build the world’s first commercial supersonic airliner. Founded in 2014, the company set out to make air travel dramatically faster — up to twice the speed of today’s ...

Feb 9 (Reuters) - French oil major TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), opens new tab on Monday signed two long-term deals to supply solar power to Google’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab data centres in Texas, as it ...

Big Tech is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out the energy-hungry infrastructure of AI, and many are turning to “behind-the-meter” solutions to get things up and running as quickly ...

The data center boom has arrived in small-town Beaver County with little of the fanfare that’s accompanied similar proposals across Southwestern Pennsylvania. Shippingport Council granted several ...

AI data centers are driving a surge in new gas projects. AI data centers are driving a surge in new gas projects. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a ...