After suing an Oregon utility for not supplying enough power to its data centers, Amazon this week ironed out a potential workaround: The hyperscaler won the bankruptcy auction for one of the world’s ...

The first power plant funded by the Texas Energy Fund’s gas loans came online earlier this month, and a second is on its way. These mark the first tangible victories for a program that has run ...

In Amazon’s second quarter earnings call, president Andy Jassy said the company’s cloud computing arm AWS has more demand than capacity — and its “single biggest constraint” is power. “I don’t believe ...

Residential aggregators say they can help meet load growth. But have they really overcome historical barriers to scale?

In 2023, Grid Strategies declared the end of “the era of flat power.” That report, which forecasted a “shocking” peak demand growth of 38 gigawatts through 2028, caused a ripple of alarm through the ...

The months since Duke University researcher Tyler Norris released his landmark paper on data center flexibility in February have been a whirlwind. That research argued that if large loads — namely ...

The Department of Energy is taking a new approach to funding grid upgrades: tapping a pot freed up by the Defense Production ...

Google is leaning in on distributed energy resources to power its data center buildout in PJM, via a 100 megawatt virtual power plant deal with Voltus, the companies announced today. Voltus announced ...

Landmark regulatory filings show vast off-peak headroom alongside exploding data center bottlenecks. Virginia’s major ...

Residential solar and battery storage company Sunrun is joining the emerging market for edge computing by turning homes into decentralized data centers. The company last week announced a pilot program ...

When NextEra announced its plans to buy Dominion for $67 billion, it was the scale of the deal that initially drew the most discussion. It would be the biggest utility acquisition in U.S. history: a ...