The United States generates and consumes a lot of energy each year. In 2023, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates the US produced nearly 103 quadrillion Btu (British thermal units) ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnered with the University of Tennessee to develop ...

The US electrical grid is facing a stress test like never before. Thanks to a perfect storm of AI power consumption, climate crisis, crony capitalism, and a president bent on uprooting perfectly good ...

Google will invest $25 billion in data centers across the nation’s largest electric grid over the next two years to help power its big bet on artificial intelligence, the company said Tuesday. The ...

AI models and the data centers filled with chips to power them require an enormous amount of power. And the industry is scrambling to keep pace. After a decade of largely flat electricity needs, ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — With the explosive growth of Big Tech’s data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the ...

Blockchain technology can help modernize the US electrical grid by marshaling human labor and stranded resources to create decentralized energy infrastructure, according to Cosmo Jiang, a general ...

Businesses and households served by the largest US power grid will spend a record $16.1 billion to ensure electricity supplies amid a massive artificial intelligence-driven demand surge. The payments ...

Solar weather and EMPs both pose great threats to the United States’ power grid and need to be addressed as soon as possible. This week, the influential and bipartisan National Conference of State ...

US energy industry regulators and analysts are increasingly repeating the same message: Grid operators need to unify their cybersecurity and physical security ...