The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on Thursday approved the Electric Reliability Council ​of Texas' (ERCOT) first ...

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 ...

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 ...

FERC said it is moving to ensure transmission reliability and an uninterrupted supply of electricity by requiring RTOs and ...

DUBLIN—Big tech built so many data centers in Ireland that the sector uses a fifth of the country’s electricity—more than all of Ireland’s urban homes put together. For much of the past three years, ...

A Denver-based data center builder is looking to tap into the growing hub in the Austin-San Antonio area. Tract is building three more data centers in the region: two in the San Antonio metro area and ...

PHOENIX—A new style of architecture is rising in the sprawling suburbs of the Sonoran Desert: windowless data centers that hum 24 hours a day and guzzle as much electricity as a midsize city. As ...

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...

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 ...

Soaring power bills are threatening to claim their biggest victim yet — the nation’s largest electric grid operator. Federal officials have suggested breaking up PJM Interconnection LLC, which runs ...

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In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...