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

Modern data centers use a similar amount of electricity but can be built in nine to 12 months. To meet that projected demand, construction of a new gas-fired power plant, or a solar farm with battery ...
phillyvoice.com

Pa. and N.J. want data centers to guarantee their own power supply

In a surprise move that could benefit PJM Interconnection, four state governors have submitted a joint proposal formulated with the Data Center Coalition, an industry group, that favors approving ...

What to know about proposed power lines for Port Washington data center

Why are new power lines needed? Who will pay for them? What do nearby residents and officials say? A Milwaukee Journal ...
Bisnow

As States Make Data Centers Pay More For Power, Developers Prove Willing To Ante Up

Facing an unprecedented flood of data center proposals that require billions of dollars in grid infrastructure projects to power, a growing number of states and utilities are enacting measures to ...
PBS

How data center power demand could help lower electricity prices

The latest Consumer Price Index shows that the average electric bill went up more than 5% from September 2024 to September 2025. That's faster than the inflation rate for the same period. Conventional ...
Inside Climate News

Four Governors Whose States Rely on PJM Want Data Centers to Guarantee Their Own Power

In a surprise move that could benefit PJM Interconnection, four state governors have submitted a joint proposal formulated with the Data Center Coalition (DCC), an industry group, that favors ...
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 ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

Will data center demands strain Archbald power, water, wildlife?

ARCHBALD — Staback Park offers a sweeping view of the borough’s northern tier. Fields of brush and wetlands thicken into dense woods that insulate the park from all but a glint of lights from Business ...
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 ...
The Business Journals

Power, water and progress: Sorting fact from fiction in data centers

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The irony is striking: You're running a data center with ...
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 ...