Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical ...

Lake Tahoe finds itself in the middle of the national debate about the rising energy demand from data centers as a utility company scrambles to secure an alternate power source. About 49,000 customers ...

The state’s largest utility is building power plants and a web of transmission lines to carry electricity to satisfy unprecedented demand, mostly from new server farms. Rachael Maszk and her daughters ...

Americans are so against the construction of artificial intelligence data centers in their local areas that they'd rather see a nuclear power plant built nearby, according to new polling data released ...

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have been informed they’ll lose power next year after their current provider reallocates electricity to data centers. The local supplier has roughly a year to find a ...

A small utility powering the California side of Lake Tahoe has a year to find a new source of energy at a time when unprecedented demand from the rapid rise of data centers in the Nevada desert is ...

SPARTANBURG — NorthMark, the company behind the data center under construction on South Pine Street, said that its recent request for a ninefold increase in power is consistent with its vision for the ...

Everything is bigger in Texas — and that includes the data center demand straining its power grid. Texas data center development has become so rampant that the state is on track to become the world's ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.