County commissioners approve data center, power plant facilities south of Cheyenne

Plans are moving forward on a proposed power plant and a data center campus south of Cheyenne following the Laramie County ...
Digi Times

Nvidia seeks solutions as AI data centers push power supply limits

As artificial intelligence applications and model scales continue their rapid expansion, the technology industry faces a mounting infrastructure crisis: power supply ...
Wired

Google Data Centers Are Returning Nuclear Power to Tornado Country

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a derecho slammed into the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in 2020, Diana Lokenvitz had time for ...
The Conversation

Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?

Theodore Kury is the Director of Energy Studies at the University of Florida’s Public Utility Research Center, which is sponsored in part by the Florida electric and gas utilities, the Florida Public ...
The Conversation

Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions – here’s how its carbon capture tech works

Ramesh Agarwal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
POWER Magazine

Data Centers and the Grid: Key Insights from POWER’s Inaugural Data Center POWER eXchange Summit

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 ...
The Verge

Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT

A bad query setup in a system intended to limit bot traffic crashed large parts of the internet for a few hours. A bad query setup in a system intended to limit bot traffic crashed large parts of the ...
Inside Climate News

Data Centers’ Use of Diesel Generators for Backup Power Is Commonplace—and Problematic

In the world of data centers, ensuring a facility will be online 99.999 percent of the time, is everything. Access to power is the number one priority when developers are trying to figure out where to ...
Houston Chronicle

Chevron is building its first power plant for AI in Texas. Here's where

Chevron has selected West Texas to be the home of its first natural gas power project in support of the growing demands of AI data centers. The Houston-based oil major said Wednesday during an ...
Los Angeles Times

Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power

Data centers completed in Silicon Valley sit empty for years — unable to power up because the local utility lacks capacity to supply them with electricity. AI computing will more than double ...
Yahoo

Officials power up game-changing facility that will transform power grid: 'Can continue seamlessly'

Zambia has added a massive amount of solar power to its grid, according to Energies Media. The Chisamba solar power plant is now generating 100 megawatts of power, enough to energize up to 50,000 ...
The Motley Fool

3 Stocks That Will Benefit Most From the AI Data Center Power Boom

The data center buildout won't happen without these three companies. The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) is having a ripple effect on the nation's power grid. The need for more data centers ...