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 ...
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 ...
CNBC

NextEra Energy to buy Dominion in deal that unites two key players in race to power AI data centers

NextEra Energy will buy Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $67 billion, the companies announced Monday. Dominion is the utility that powers the world's largest data center market in ...
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 ...
OPB

Data center uncertainty is making power grid planning difficult, experts say

The proliferation of power-hungry data centers is making it difficult to predict the future of the Pacific Northwest’s energy needs. That has implications for the region’s efforts to invest in ...
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 ...