Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it's not fair
Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else.
Behind $500 billion AI data center plan, US startups jockey with tech giants
This week's announcement by President Donald Trump of a massive private-sector investment to build more AI data centers casts a spotlight on a relatively small and nimble class of cloud computing firms positioned to play a bigger role in the tech sector.
Reliance plans world’s biggest AI data center in India, report says
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is planning to build what could become the world’s largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a capacity of 3 gigawatts to capitalize on surging AI demand.
Trump pledges fast-track for AI data center power plants
President Trump said in a virtual address at the World Economic Forum on Thursday that his administration is going to give "rapid approvals" to AI companies looking to build power plants attached to their data centers.
Blackstone to buy $1 billion Virginia power plant near data centers
The unit of Blackstone dedicated to investments in the energy industry has agreed to acquire Potomac Energy Center, the asset manager told Reuters on Thursday, in a deal symbolizing the allure to investors of power plants sited near data centers.
Data centers are booming in Texas. What does that mean for the grid?
The rise of artificial intelligence, the digitization of the economy and everyday life’s growing computing needs have ...
Stargate's First Data Center Site is Size of Central Park, With At Least 57 Jobs
About 875 acres in Abilene, or roughly the size of New York’s Central Park, have been set aside to construct data centers, ...
First data center for Trump administration's Stargate AI initiative coming to Abilene
Stargate's first data center campus, located in Abilene, will be about 875 acres, but only says it will create at least 57 ...
Bill Gates' TerraPower Has Deal to Use Nuclear Power for Data Centers
TerraPower, the nuclear energy company founded by former Microsoft CEO and co-founder Bill Gates, announced it has a ...
How data centers work and why AI is driving their growth
A look at how data centers operate, and why they require a lot of electricity and water. (AP animation/Donavon Brutus) ...
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Meta's $10 billion Louisiana data center . Here's how it happened.
To bring Meta to Louisiana, officials rewrote laws and pushed through big tax breaks in record time. The inside story, from ...
Amazon spends $102 million in Ohio for data center land. Are server farms, data centers the same?
Amazon bought hundreds of acres of land in Ohio to build a massive data center. Are server farms and data centers different?
Could more data centers come to Oklahoma? UAE-based company announces $20B investment plan
A UAE investment firm planned to expand across eight states in the sunbelt. Government officials commented on the potential ...
Amid soaring demand for data centers, real estate companies look to become energy developers
Brendan Wallace has a lot on his mind lately. Wallace is the co-founder of Fifth Wall Ventures, a nine-year-old proptech ...