Three key themes set the tone for the energy industry this year: data centres’ rising power demand, tariffs disrupting supply chains and worsening grid bottlenecks. Credit: Inkoly via Shutterstock.

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AI companies are growing at a rapid pace — and continued growth depends on increasing energy supply. Data centers are sprouting up all over the country, sometimes facing community backlash thanks to ...

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The Georgia Public Service Commission is set to hold final hearings this week on Georgia Power’s request to approve nearly 10,000 megawatts of new energy capacity. The request, which the utility ...

(The Center Square) – A new stipulated agreement reached between Georgia Power and the Public Service Commission's Public Interest Advocacy staff could lower electric bills while giving the utility ...

AI has quickly become the defining driver of demand within global data centers, outpacing nearly every forecast made prior to the latest breakthroughs, and the resultant power consumption leap has not ...

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Entergy Louisiana began construction Monday on a pair of gas power plants that will generate electricity for what will be the world’s largest data center. Entergy Corp., the largest investor-owned ...

POWER breaks down the top insights from Data Center POWER eXchange, its unique one-day summit curated by POWER’s editorial team and convened to examine the collision between accelerating data center ...

ATLANTA, Ga. - On Wednesday, Georgia Power filed new testimony defending its proposal to add roughly 10,000 megawatts of energy to help run data centers statewide. For context, energy experts say ...

Facing an unprecedented flood of data center proposals that require billions of dollars in grid infrastructure projects to power, a growing number of states and utilities are enacting measures to ...