AI’s power crunch turns Bitcoin miners’ grid access into an asset

AI data centers are straining power grids, turning Bitcoin miners’ energized sites into valuable infrastructure for HPC and ...
Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsOpinion

Why data center growth forecasts are essential to mitigating their impact on the grid

To plan for the impacts of data centers on the grid, experts can take upfront deposits and analyze a scope of possible ...
The Institute for Energy Research

FERC Accelerates Power Grid Hook-Ups for AI Data Centers

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a series of orders requiring power grid operators to remove bottlenecks that ...
techtimes

China AI Data Center Grid Locks Out Nvidia With $295 Billion Domestic Chip Mandate

People visit the Huawei stand during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) at the Shanghai World Expo and Convention Center in Shanghai on July 28, 2025. Getty Images/HECTOR RETAMAL ...
The Next Web

China’s green-power target for AI data centres runs into the grid

Beijing wants renewables to supply four-fifths of its AI data centres’ power by 2030. Forecasting and grid risk are getting in the way.
MIT Technology Review

Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.

As the data-center boom puts pressure on the grid, some companies say the answer isn’t just more power plants but software that dials down centers’ energy-guzzling ways when demand spikes.
winbuzzer.com

Google Plans AlphaEvolve Cloud Rollout for Customers

Google said Wednesday that it plans to bring its Gemini-powered coding agent AlphaEvolve to commercial users through Google Cloud, turning an internal algorithm-search system into a product test for ...
POWER Magazine

Data Centers and the Grid: How Hyperscale Computing Is Reshaping Power Infrastructure

A power paradox is emerging in the hyperscale era: while computing demand is accelerating, power availability is increasingly becoming the constraint that determines where data centers are built, how ...
Reuters

US utilities scale up grid-boosting tech to meet surging demand

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. U.S. grid owners are investing in cost-efficient grid enhancements and virtual power plant schemes to help meet soaring demand but ...
Wall Street Journal

A New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
Business Wire

Infleqtion Advances ARPA-E Quantum Computing Grid Optimization Program

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infleqtion, a global leader in quantum computing and quantum sensing, today announced it has executed its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research ...