Texas officials weigh new ERCOT rules as data center demand surges, raising concerns about grid reliability and electricity ...

Soma Energy, a US-based energy software startup focused on optimizing electricity use for data centers, has raised $7 million in seed funding, led by Category Ventures. The company intends to use the ...

Google plans to throw its financial support behind a multibillion-dollar data centre project in Texas, leased to Anthropic, ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — One part of the discussion centered on data centers, which threatens to be overshadowed by all the various officials and organizations debating the pros and cons: the residents ...

Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

A month after the state’s grid operator said it would pull together data centers and other large load projects that have been waiting to connect to the grid into a group called “batch zero,” that ...

This means treating readiness as a long-lead process, beginning community engagement early, building robust and ...

The potential data center project raises tensions over how to best use land near transit stops, the Beltline and Atlanta’s ...