Data Center Power

  • High-voltage instrument-transformer equipment inside a Trench Group test facility.
    The POWER Interview

    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 most pressure. High-voltage grid components are becoming a critical constraint as utilities, transmission developers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and hyperscalers compete for equipment needed to […]

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Blueprint illustration of a construction hard hat with a power plant and transmission towers in the background.
    Workforce

    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 beginning to reshape another part of the development equation: talent. As states and utilities reconsider how the costs of serving large data center loads should […]

  • Rendering of a large-scale data center campus used in TIDAL PWR materials
    Data Centers

    TIDAL PWR, BTQ Develop Blueprint for Quantum-Ready Data Centers

    Texas data center developer TIDAL PWR, which says it has seven projects totaling 9.87 GW in its artificial intelligence (AI) campus development pipeline and designs its campuses to combine utility service and behind-the-meter generation, is collaborating with quantum technology company BTQ Technologies to determine how power and data center infrastructure could eventually accommodate quantum computing […]

  • Northern lights illuminate Vistra's Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant in western Pennsylvania, part of the Meta power purchase agreement that will support 20-year contracts for 2.6 GW of existing nuclear capacity across three Vistra facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Courtesy: Vistra Corp.
    Nuclear

    Meta Locks In Up to 6.6 GW of Nuclear Power Through Deals with Vistra, Oklo, and TerraPower

    In-Depth: Meta’s suite of three landmark agreements is poised to provide the financial certainty to extend aging plants, accelerate first-of-a-kind advanced reactor deployments, and relieve PJM’s tightening capacity constraints while establishing the hyperscaler as an anchor customer for a 6.6-GW corporate-backed nuclear fleet. In a stunning move that reinforces Big Tech’s growing role in underwriting […]