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Tech companies building massive AI data centers should pay to power them
This opinion piece argues that AI data center developers — including Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet — should bear the costs and financial risks of building the massive new power […]
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Data Centers That Don’t Exist Yet Are Already Haunting the Grid – WSJ
U.S. utilities are being flooded with interconnection requests from prospective data centers seeking to power AI operations, with combined requests totaling nearly 400 gigawatts — more than half of U.S. […]
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A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up. | Utility Dive
Speculative data center interconnection requests flood U.S. utility queues at five to 10 times the rate of actual construction, distorting grid planning and raising the risk of costly overbuilding that […]
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Thirsty Data Water Use and The Projected Data Center Boom in Texas
Texas data centers consume an estimated 25 billion gallons of water annually — 0.4 percent of the state's total use. Projected tenfold growth in electricity demand by 2030 pushes that […]
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Data Centers’ Use of Diesel Generators for Backup Power Is Commonplace—and Problematic
Despite federal limits of 100 hours for non-emergency use, diesel backup generators at Texas data centers face growing demand as ERCOT gains authority to curtail large loads during peak periods. […]
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Why Does It Take So Long to Connect a Data Center to the Grid?
U.S. high-voltage transmission construction fell from 1,700 miles per year to 180 over two years as data center demand surges — CenterPoint Energy saw interconnection requests jump from 1 GW […]
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Electric grid faces political roadblocks as it struggles with data center demand
Surging data center power demand collides with rollbacks of renewable energy incentives and years-long gas turbine backlogs. In South Texas, a lignite coal plant transitions to a 400-megawatt solar farm […]
Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms