Here’s how AI data centers affect the electrical grid

Tech giants are in a heated race to build data centers and dominate the AI landscape. But America might not be ready for the energy demand.

Editorial: Meeting needs for data centers, fair power rates

Shared energy demand for AI and ratepayers requires an increased pace for clean energy projects.
The New Yorker

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Cotton proposes allowing data centers to build own power plants, electrical networks

The DATA Act would allow companies to construct electrical networks for data centers and other high-demand facilities. Cotton argued these systems would not need to be connected to a large energy grid ...