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TotalEnergies just landed a massive solar deal to power Google’s expanding Texas data centers. The company signed two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity, or ...

Feb 13 (Reuters) - A plan from PJM Interconnection, the largest power grid operator in the U.S., to manage burgeoning power demand from data centers could accelerate deal-making between data-center ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

Feb 11 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday announced initiatives to limit the impact of data centers on consumer energy prices amid increased investment in power-hungry ...

Lawmakers in Springfield have introduced legislation create regulations for data centers. Several acts would be amended as part of the proposed legislation. The Senate bill was filed by State Sen. Ram ...

After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe Why Beaches Are Swamped With Sargassum, the Stinky Seaweed Menace Amid Cuts to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ...

Federal energy officials on Wednesday announced a record $26.5 billion loan to electric utilities in Georgia and Alabama, saying the loan will save customers money as the companies undertake a huge ...

During a cold spell on Jan. 23, 2025, Dominion Energy hit an all-time peak load with 24,678 megawatts of electricity use recorded. But that’s nothing compared to what future data centers will demand, ...

CLOVER — Opposition to a $1 billion data center under construction in rural York County continues to grow as residents complain of increased traffic and noise while a group pushes to stop the project.

Meta struck a massive chip deal with Nvidia that includes new standalone CPUs and next-generation GPUs and Vera Rubin rack-scale systems. The social media giant will also use Nvidia for networking ...

Meta Platforms' (META) auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the social media giant's decision to keep a $27B data center project off its balance sheet in its latest annual report, according to ...