The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

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 ...
Bloomberg L.P.

The Race to Rethink Data Centers for AI’s Power Surge

Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new ...
Investopedia

Data Centers Power Economic Growth, But Americans Hate Them

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles breaking down complex financial topics in plain language, emphasizing the impact that economic ...
Seeking Alpha

Which companies will help AI data centers break the power supply bottleneck?

SA Spotlight uses AI to summarize content published on Seeking Alpha. All summaries are reviewed by human editors prior to publication. Investors Should Know: Power supply is emerging as a key ...
The New York Times

Rising Energy Prices and Data Centers Are at Center of a Utility Deal

NextEra’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy comes as Americans are paying a lot more for electricity, and data centers are demanding a lot more power from utilities. By Ivan Penn NextEra ...
POWER Magazine

From Backup to Prime Power: How AI Data Centers Are Bypassing the Grid

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 ...
Mother Jones

Chevron Seeks Huge Tax Break to Build a Power Plant for a Texas Data Center

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A major oil company is seeking a state tax break in Texas worth hundreds of millions ...
Forbes

People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers

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 ...
SFGate

Tahoe is losing a major power source amid Google, Apple data center expansion

A small utility powering the California side of Lake Tahoe has a year to find a new source of energy at a time when unprecedented demand from the rapid rise of data centers in the Nevada desert is ...
TechSpot

Mr. Wonderful's AI data center in Utah could consume 2x more power than the whole state

What we know so far: The Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA) in Utah has provisionally approved a new hyperscale AI data center project estimated to consume nearly 9 GW of power – more ...
Post and Courier

After requesting large power increase, Spartanburg data center says that's been the plan all along

SPARTANBURG — NorthMark, the company behind the data center under construction on South Pine Street, said that its recent request for a ninefold increase in power is consistent with its vision for the ...