Oct 8 (Reuters) - Technology companies and utilities are increasingly exploring ways to make power-hungry data centers more flexible in when and how they consume electricity, helping ease the strain ...

Duke Energy has reached an agreement with data center operators on a long-sought large-load tariff, or special rate for some big new energy users, in North Carolina. The agreement repurposes an ...

U.S. grid planners are preparing for annual electricity demand growth of about 0.9% to 1.6% through 2050, with data centers emerging as a major driver, and EPRI—the Electric Power Research ...

It’s official: Australia’s data centre boom will not be solely powered by renewables. At the National Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the federal government softened its stance on using coal and gas to ...

PJM Interconnection has proposed a new framework that would allow large data centers and other major electricity users to enter service without first securing enough new capacity to cover their demand ...

Data centers, the gigantic buildings that house the computing power behind the artificial intelligence boom, are wildly unpopular. A recent Gallup poll found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose one being ...

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles. A Times examination details how the ...

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because data centers ...

Hamza Haq serves as a writer for the gaming guides and lists department at GameRant, while dabbling in news coverage on the side. Based in Pakistan, he has been writing professionally about games ...

There are two competing schools of thought over just how water-intensive AI is. In one, the technology is horribly thirsty. Data centers will exacerbate droughts throughout the country and “drain the ...

Shalin Savalia is a senior electrical engineer at Amazon Web Services, where he works on data center power systems. The views expressed are his own and do not represent those of his employer. The most ...

SQL is still one of the most important skills for data analysts, data scientists, business intelligence analysts, and analytics engineers. But learning SQL syntax is only the first step. To stand out, ...