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Beyond the Demand Forecast: Six Questions About Powering Data Centers From DPX 2026
This year’s Data Center POWER eXchange (DPX), whose programming POWER’s editors curated, was structured to look beyond the scale of opportunity presented by large-load forecasts and delve into the questions…
Getting It Right Together: The State Regulatory Lens on America’s Large-Load Future
Who pays, who bears the risk, who decides, and when? Virginia Commissioner Jehmal Hudson makes a forceful case that serving large-load growth requires credible commitments, earlier coordination, and ratepayer protections…
Google Deal Backs 890 MW of Constellation Nuclear Uprates at 11 PJM Reactors
Hyperscaler Google and Constellation Energy, the largest nuclear operator in the U.S., have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) designed to support $4.3 billion of upgrades at 11 nuclear…
 
Google, Georgia Power Have Deal to Support Nuclear Power Plant Uprates
Electric utility Georgia Power and tech giant Google said the companies have an agreement under which Google will support power uprates at two of the utility's nuclear power plants.
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Can U.S. High-Voltage Grid Equipment Supply Keep Pace With 765-kV Expansion and Data Center Demand?
From two-year bushing lead times and hyperscaler demand to U.S. manufacturing expansion and the emerging 765-kV build-out, Trench Group CEO Bahadir Basdere explains where high-voltage equipment supply is under the…
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One Nuclear Signs Deal for 2.88-GW Gas-Fired Plant, Large BESS for Louisiana Data Center Campus
Florida-headquartered ONE Nuclear Energy said the company has executed a binding letter of intent (LOI) that would provide site control for development of Project Cayman, a 2.88-GW gas-fired power plant and 700-MW/2.88 GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) sited alongside a data center complex.
Bringing a Power Plant's Worth of Load Onto the Grid: NERC's Interconnection Reckoning 
Data centers are connecting to the transmission system faster than the reliability rules were built to handle and behaving nothing like the passive load those rules assumed. Here's what the…
AI Data Centers Turn to Industrial Boilers and Steam Turbines for Power
Artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are being built at an unprecedented pace. There are more than 12,000 active projects in the U.S. currently seeking grid interconnection representing 1,570 GW of…
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The POWER Interview: How the Data Center Power Crunch Is Reshaping the Talent Market
As data center developers confront tighter power supplies, longer interconnection timelines, and growing scrutiny over who should pay for the grid infrastructure required to serve large loads, those pressures are…
How Data Center-Driven Load Growth Is Reshaping the Renewable Energy Market
U.S. grid planners are preparing for annual electricity demand growth of about 0.9% to 1.6% through 2050, with data centers emerging as a major driver, and EPRI—the Electric Power Research…
Fit Energy Will Use Gas-Powered Fuel Cells For Pennsylvania Data Center Project
Fit Energy, a developer of energy solutions for data center projects, has announced plans for a fuel cell power generation and data center project in Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.…
Rethinking Power Architecture for AI Data Centers
For data center developers and operators, access to reliable power is becoming a defining commercial risk. Power availability and certainty can influence where projects are built, how quickly capacity can…