The world’s reliance on the internet, the shift to cloud computing, and the emergence of AI all fuel demand for more and more data centers. The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that by 2026, ...

Even when it has sufficient generation on the papers, the demand of electricity during winter can record a high demand. The strain is reflected in other areas: blockages in the transmission lines, ...

The U.S. Department of Energy aims to fast-track how to feed AI with energy by asking companies that develop electric power to share information about their projects for potential near-term federal ...

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 ...

Given marching orders by the U.S. Energy Dept. to boost artificial intelligence sector growth, independent agency Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) now must absorb nearly 200 diverging power ...

“Pulse power” has received a lot of attention and mass-media exposure recently, as demonstrated by the dramatic example in December 2022. That’s when the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence ...