June 18 (Reuters) - The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on Thursday approved the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' (ERCOT) first "Batch Zero" process for ‌large electricity users, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sen. Adam Schiff has introduced the “Energy Cost Fairness and Reliability Act of 2026,” targeting the growing electricity demands of AI data centers and other large energy users. The bill would ...

LAKELAND — Speaking in the county where Florida’s first “hyperscale” data center might be built, Gov. Ron DeSantis struck a rather unwelcome tone toward such facilities. DeSantis appeared May 7 at ...

The Board of Trustees of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) agreed on April 16, 2026, to advance NERC's years-long effort to examine the reliability impacts of computational ...

The world's electricity demand rose by 3% in 2025, with growth nearly triple compared to the 1.3% increase in total energy consumption, as data centers and electric vehicles continued to push power ...

Maine looks poised to become the first state to freeze building of new data centers with legislation that could pass this spring, but community backlash against these properties is spreading across ...

ROUND ROCK — The size of ERCOT’s large load interconnection requests — the majority of which are data centers wanting to connect to the grid — soared by nearly 150 gigawatts to 410 gigawatts in just ...

DATA, DOLLARS & DEMAND: The metro's power supplier implemented a large load service power plan with protections in place for regular customers. KSHB 41 reporter Isabella Ledonne reports on stories in ...

The first time I geared up for a run during the Marathon server slam on Feb. 27 with two friends I used to play Destiny with, we all admitted to being disoriented. The extraction shooter’s UI throws a ...

Across the country, demand from data centers are pushing electric grids into new territory. The big question regulators keep running into: Who pays for the power? In Delaware, that question is playing ...