Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant near El Dorado, Arkansas. There is sufficient energy efficiency and demand flexibility in ...

A month after the state’s grid operator said it would pull together data centers and other large load projects that have been waiting to connect to the grid into a group called “batch zero,” that ...

The control room at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on May 15, 2018. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is changing the way it evaluates its transmission capacity to ...

What if I told you that a simple change could make your Power Query refresh from SharePoint up to 700% faster? If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a progress bar that refuses to budge, you’re not ...

The data center industry is racing toward a power crisis that technology alone will not be able to solve, according to Uptime Institute’s 2026 data center predictions report. “Critical digital ...

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In a much-anticipated order, on December 18, 2025,[1] the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “the Commission”) ruled that existing rules for service applicable to generators serving ...

Duke Energy is investing billions to upgrade its power grid, in part responding to unprecedented demand expected from a surge in new data centers. The Charlotte utility giant is adamant, however, that ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — ERCOT is speaking up about the growth in data centers across the state. They said they’re seeing applications for the large load centers come in at record rates. These large load centers ...

Planned data center construction shows no signs of fading, with new additions to require 2.7x — nearly triple — the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade, according to a new ...