ExxonMobil Planning Large Gas-Fired Plant to Serve Data Centers

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:20:12 +0000

ExxonMobil is preparing to join the power generation business, seeing an opportunity to support the electricity supply for energy-intensive data centers. The company on Dec. 11 said it is designing […]

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Google Invests in Partnership to Develop Energy Assets at Data Center Parks

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:52:09 +0000

Technology companies are looking at various ways to source electricity for energy-intensive data centers. Google on Dec. 10 unveiled a plan to join with several partners in supporting power generation, […]

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Tech Giant Meta Seeking Nuclear Power to Support Data Centers

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:42:45 +0000

Facebook parent Meta wants to find developers that can provide nuclear reactors to support electricity demand from the tech company’s data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. The group said […]

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Balancing Growth and Sustainability: Power Challenges for Data Centers in the Age of AI

Credit to Author: Dave Sterlace| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:22:40 +0000

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized how industries operate, and data centers have become the nerve center of this transformation. From streaming services to real-time collaboration tools, the […]

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THE BIG PICTURE: How Much Power Will Data Centers Consume? (Infographic)

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:07:22 +0000

Driven by artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and the digital transformation, U.S. data centers consumed an estimated 150 TWh of electricity in 2023—equivalent to around 3% of the nation’s power […]

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Aurora Energy Research projects that Northern Virginia alone could see the addition of 11 GW to 16 GW of data center capacity by 2030. Meanwhile, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the data center share of electricity load in Virginia could climb to 50% by 2030, with similar trends expected in other major U.S. states.

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Data Center Hysteria: How the Power Industry Is Accommodating the Boom

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:04:15 +0000

Everywhere you turn these days people are talking about data centers and the enormous amount of electrical power they are expected to demand as artificial intelligence (AI) platforms scale up and become more

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Why Businesses and the Government Are Turning to Nuclear Reactors for Our Increasing Energy Demands

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:45:29 +0000

The energy landscape in the U.S. is undergoing a seismic shift, owing in part to the exponential growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications and data centers, according to McKinsey […]

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Hotly Contested Dispute Over Co-Located Loads is Primed for FERC Action

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:50:38 +0000

Federal regulation of customer loads located next to existing power generating facilities, referred to as “co-located loads,” have become a significant area of interest for the electric industry. Large industrial […]

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Powering the Future: How AI’s Energy Demands Could Push Power Grid to Its Limits

Credit to Author: Joe Morgan| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:45:16 +0000

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption skyrockets—and especially generative AI (genAI)—the underlying infrastructure powering these technologies faces unprecedented demands. Data centers, the nerve centers of AI operations, rely heavily on electricity, […]

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Is a Modular Data Center the Answer to Tech Industry’s Land and Energy Crisis?

Credit to Author: Joe Reele| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:57:10 +0000

The digital age is fundamentally dependent on data centers, which serve as the backbone of our technological infrastructure. Without them, the digital world as we know it would not exist. […]

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