The rapid development and widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is posing new challenges for electricity consumption. This is because most AI systems rely on data centers, facilities hosting several computing servers that store and process large amounts of data.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last month secured a Department of Energy study examining how AI-driven data centers are driving up electricity costs and straining grid reliability. The fact that Congress is pressing for such a review for consumers ...

China's State Grid will spend 4 trillion yuan ($574 billion) to upgrade the country's power grid between 2026 and 2030, state-run Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. That is a 40% jump in fixed-asset investments from the previous five-year period,

Professor Singisetti at the University at Buffalo discusses the commercialisation path for Gallium Oxide in high-power electronics

Tech giants want to double A.I. electricity consumption in 5 years by enough to power more than 30 million homes. America can do it. Between now and 2030, the giants of A.I. like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta aim to more than double the ...

In 2015 on a cold December afternoon, approximately 230,000 Ukrainians suddenly lost access to electrical power. In many countries around the world, grid outages aren’t an uncommon phenomenon, and the

The daytime temperature in Kyiv, which has endured freezing temperatures for more than two weeks, was minus 12 degrees C (about 10 degrees F), with streets covered in ice and the rumble of generators heard throughout the capital.

In 2025 — for the first year ever — solar arrays provided more electricity to Texas’ main power grid than coal-fired power plants.

"We can store those leftovers, so we don’t have to throw them out,” says John Zahurancik with the Arlington-based energy company Fluence.

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors on Friday tried to step up pressure on the operator of the nation's largest electric grid to take urgent steps to boost power supplies and keep electricity bills from rising even higher.