1+ hour, 56+ min ago  (677+ words) Emerald AI's Varun Sivaram explains how to enable data centers to operate as grid assets. As the buildout of data centers accelerates on a dramatic trajectory, its strain on the electric grid has increased in turn; forecasts suggest they could…...

14+ hour, 21+ min ago  (563+ words) This marks the agency's largest-ever investment in the moonshot technology. The Department of Energy's research and development arm will invest $135 million into removing the "toughest technical barriers" for fusion reaching commercial scale, ARPA-E director Conner Prochaska said today. It marks…...

17+ hour, 20+ min ago  (481+ words) As hyperscalers lock in gigawatts of behind-the-meter gas, the line between a temporary fix and a permanent foundation is blurring. But the Goodnight news is not a first for Google. The company also announced last October that it has also…...

17+ hour, 54+ min ago  (571+ words) The sector can learn from the community opposition and policy hurdles that clean and fossil energy have long faced. Across the U. S. , every major energy source faces community opposition. Wind and solar " cheap, clean, job-creating technologies " face restrictions or bans, often…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (642+ words) The battery recycling company's energy arm is taking a "ruthless simplicity" approach to storage infrastructure for data centers. In late February, when a massive storm brought more than a hundred inches of snow to the Sierra Nevadas, closing highways and…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1431+ words) After nearly a decade, Tesla's electric trucks are going into production. But challenges remain, especially for the grid. Mike Roeth, executive director at the North American Council for Freight Efficiency, was at that initial reveal in Hawthorne, California. At the…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (401+ words) The team that built Amazon Web Services' energy infrastructure is enabling data centers to bring their own capacity - accelerating time to power and improving grid flexibility PRESS RELEASE: "Soma Energy, the company using AI to unlock existing grid capacity and…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (921+ words) The portion of the Goodnight data center build that will be powered by wind will be the state's first application of new SB6 rules. Crusoe's controversial Goodnight campus, under construction in the Texas Panhandle, has found itself at the center of…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1592+ words) The fight over data centers reveals a deeper crisis over our inability to plan and coordinate at scale. America's grid problems are often framed as physical constraints: equipment shortages, interconnection backlogs, and a lack of powered land. But are we…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (197+ words) Utilities have disclosed 187 GW of data center load commitments. Less than half is backed by disclosed contractual terms. Utilities have disclosed more than 187 gigawatts of data center load commitments across 19 regulated utilities, a figure aggregated from public earnings disclosures that…...