Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

A new deal between Google and Voltus will take advantage of flexibility on the grid. Would you take a payment to ramp down your electricity use? Would it change anything if you were doing so to help ...

The investment comes as Elon Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing. Elon Musk’s SpaceX committed to spending over $2.8 ...

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Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical ...

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A hot potato: Residents in many US states have reacted angrily as AI data centers spring up across the country, citing environmental impacts and rising utility bills. In one particularly egregious ...

Americans are so against the construction of artificial intelligence data centers in their local areas that they'd rather see a nuclear power plant built nearby, according to new polling data released ...

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers — and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It’s one of ...

Data centers and other large industrial power users in Oregon will soon pay more to access electricity through Portland General Electric. This comes after state utility regulators issued an order last ...

Span, a California-based startup, has developed small, fractional data centers, or "nodes," called XFRA units. The idea is to take advantage of unused electrical capacity on local grids, which the ...