Google may have signed on to President Trump’s toothless power pledge, but it’s clear the company started working months ago on a framework to power its data centers. On Thursday, Google said it will ...

Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new ...

Everything is bigger in Texas — and that includes the data center demand straining its power grid. Texas data center development has become so rampant that the state is on track to become the world's ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

For context, the global average PUE for data centers hovers around 1.5, meaning that for every unit of energy used to power the servers, another 0.5 units are consumed by cooling and infrastructure ...

Large load data centers can require as much electricity as a city the size of Indianapolis. Utility companies are finding ways to respond to demand but they are not always transparent about their ...

A power paradox is emerging in the hyperscale era: while computing demand is accelerating, power availability is increasingly becoming the constraint that determines where data centers are built, how ...

Data centers around the world are facing growing backlash over energy use and local impact. Danish grid operator Energinet recently halted new connection agreements after an explosive surge in demand.

As demand surges for the energy and data centers needed to support AI, cloud platforms and digital services, the physical infrastructure needed to support that growth—transmission lines, power ...