Bloomberg L.P.

Nuclear Developer Proposes Using Navy Reactors for Data Centers

A Texas power developer is proposing to repurpose nuclear reactors from Navy warships to supply the US grid as the Trump administration pushes to secure massive amounts of energy for the artificial ...
Los Angeles Times

Data centers for AI could nearly triple San José’s energy use. Who foots the bill?

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The county seat of Santa Clara is touting its partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the city is “the ...
The New York Times

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

The Transportation Security Administration is flagging passengers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders. The Transportation Security ...
Wall Street Journal

China’s AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity From World’s Biggest Grid

ULANQAB, China—The U.S. invented the most powerful artificial-intelligence models and controls access to the most advanced computer chips, but China has an ace to play in the global AI contest. China ...
Houston Chronicle

ERCOT hit with avalanche of gigawatt requests as AI fever sweeps Texas

Texas' power grid is getting slammed with more big requests than ever, and most of them are coming from the booming world of artificial intelligence. ERCOT reported this week that large load ...
Today

See Inside the AI Data Centers Helping to Power the Internet

From emails to social media to online shopping, banking and chatting — everything we rely on everyday goes through an AI data center. The biggest concentration of those centers anywhere in the world ...
The Shreveport Times

Can Entergy power Louisiana Meta A.I. data center without rate increase?

Entergy has started building two natural gas plants in Richland Parish to power Meta's new A.I. data center. The plants are part of a $5 billion investment largely funded by Entergy and Meta.
Bloomberg L.P.

What AI Bubble? BNEF Outlook for Data Center Power Use Rises 36%

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...
KSDK

New data center rules passed in Missouri, shielding Ameren customers from infrastructure and power costs

MISSOURI, Mo. — Missouri utility regulators just passed new rules focused on data centers and other large electricity users in the eastern and central portions of the state. The Missouri Public ...
Engineering News-Record

Chevron to Build Its First Data Center Power Plant in Texas Permian Area

A pumpjack east of Andrews, Texas, in the heart of the state's Permian Basin, the region's primary oil and gas production area, stands in an area where fossil fuel giant Chevron is launching a move ...
TechCrunch

Sam Altman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks

When Hannan Happi started thinking about how to solve the AI power crisis, he kept one figure in mind: one cent per kilowatt-hour. “We went through all sorts of configurations and designs,” Happi, ...