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Google Pledges Power, Ratepayer Protections in $15B Missouri Data Center Expansion
Google will invest $15 billion in Missouri infrastructure, including a new data center in New Florence, Montgomery County, in a project that pairs its expanding data center footprint with new…
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From Backup to Prime Power: How AI Data Centers Are Bypassing the Grid
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…
Energy Experts Discuss Implications, and Intrigue, of NextEra/Dominion Deal
NextEra's purchase of Dominion Energy, if approved, would have an impact on many areas of the electricity sector. Some analysts told POWER they're concerned about how it would affect customers' power bills. Others wonder whether the $67-billion deal s part of a trend that will lead to more mergers and acquisitions in the power space.
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Data Centers and Communities: Why the Conversation Demands More Nuance
On April 7, the Maine House voted 82–62 to advance Legislative Document (LD) 307, a bill sponsored by Rep. Melanie Sachs, D-Freeport, that would impose a moratorium on artificial intelligence (AI) data
 
AI Workloads Compressing Data Center Failure Timelines
NERC’s recent Level 3 alert flagged something that should concern every data center operator: Artificial intelligence (AI) facilities are causing sudden 1,000+ MW load swings in single events.
Five-Nines Data Center Uptime Starts with Automation
Uptime has become the defining performance metric of the modern data center. As digital services underpin everything from financial markets to transport systems, tolerance for disruption has all but disappeared. For mission-critical environments, 99.999% availability…
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Aligning Data Center Growth with Community Acceptance in a Constrained Grid
Grid capacity and the interconnection queue aren’t the only constraints on U.S. data center growth. Community acceptance is becoming the toughest bottleneck to break through, and a hot political topic with the approach of the midterm elections.
Managing AI’s Footprint in a Carbon-Constrained World
Behind even the smallest convenience powered by AI is a massive surge of computing power for training models and inference. All that computing power requires energy.
Phantom Data Centers Didn't Break the Power Grid—They Proved It Was Already Broken
The requests flooding interconnection queues come from data center developers, private equity funds, land brokers, and shell companies, many of whom lack site control, a construction timeline, or even a signed customer. They secure a queue position, bet that powered land will attract a buyer, and wait. The industry calls them "phantom data centers," and the grid isn't prepared to handle them.