KREM

Avista confirms 'large load' customer is a data center

SPOKANE, Wash. — Avista confirmed on Tuesday that a potential "large load" project that the company is considering is a data center development. According to recent filings with the U.S. Securities ...
KXLY 4 News

Avista confirms 'large load customer' in energy deal is a data center

Spokane, WASH. -- Avista confirmed today that the 'large load customer' it entered into an agreement with that would consume as much electricity as half the utility's service area in Eastern ...
MIT Technology Review

How virtual power plants could provide energy for data centers

A new deal between Google and Voltus will take advantage of flexibility on the grid. Would you take a payment to ramp down your electricity use? Would it change anything if you were doing so to help ...
New York Post

Georgia residents stand to lose everything as homes seized by private company in $16B data center plan to power AI

A utility giant with a $16 billion expansion plan is using eminent domain to seize hundreds of Georgia properties — and furious owners say they never had a fighting chance. Ansley Brown was 5 years ...
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 ...
Forbes

AI’s Data Center Boom Is Running Into A Hard Power Constraint

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The numbers are staggering: The five largest American cloud providers have committed between ...
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 ...
Electrek

Data centers are cutting power to homes, driving homeowners to solar and batteries

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers — and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It’s one of ...
Insider Monkey

15 Best Power Generation Stocks To Buy For Data Center Demand

In this article, we will look at the 15 Best Power Generation Stocks To Buy For Data Center Demand. Power generation stocks are getting a closer look because the AI buildout is turning electricity ...