The North American transmission watchdog warns of cascading outages if the largest data centers aren’t regulated.

Rising electricity demand from EVs and AI is stressing a grid built of centralized, rotating generators. Renewables can provide fill the rising demand, but are they “grid friendly”? A modern grid must ...

Data centers are under immense pressure to expand, and the primary obstacle to that growth is grid constraints. That’s according to a recent survey of data center industry leaders. AlphaStruxure found ...

People cross a street as trucks plow snow in the Manhattan borough of New York City on January 25, 2026. A major winter storm called Fern hit the U.S. from January 23 to January 27, 2026. Fern caused ...

Flywheels handle short power spikes better than batteries alone; Quint pairs units with sodium-ion batteries for sustained ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large-capacity electrical wires carry power from one place to another around the nation. Stephanie Tacy/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Australia’s rapidly expanding data-centre sector is coming under increasing scrutiny from energy market regulators, with ...

Australia has become one of the world’s most attractive destinations for hyperscale data centers, ranking among the top five to 10 markets globally by capacity. Drivers include large land availability ...

Iraq’s grid is witnessing great progress as the first phase of the 500-megawatt power link between Iraq and the Gulf States nears completion.

Our electric grid—built roughly a century ago—was designed around large, centralized energy resources based on heavy rotating generators found in hydroelectric, nuclear, coal, and natural gas power ...