The NOAA issued ongoing space weather alerts in 2025, noting that solar activity, including minor radio blackouts (R1 level), could cause voltage control problems and contribute to grid instability.
Operators of the U.S. electric grid covering the world's largest data center market on Wednesday said they planned to move ...
Eleven US states are being warned to prepare for a total blackout caused by a severe geomagnetic storm that also caused some ...
Rising electricity demand from data centers is raising the risk of blackouts across a wide swath of the US during extreme ...
Rising power demand driven by data centers is shrinking U.S. electricity supplies and increasing the risk of energy shortages ...
ComEd, which serves Illinois, the US’s fourth-biggest data centre market, is trying to increase project deposits. The company ...
Artificial intelligence is booming -and America’s power grid is struggling to keep up. At the World Economic Forum, President Trump recently warned that "We need ...
Researchers warn that U.S. data centers could devour vast amounts of energy and water unless stronger guardrails shape the ...
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AI’s Power Problem Could Launch a Nuclear Renaissance

AI’s growth has outpaced America’s power grid. Nuclear energy could be the key to powering the AI era—if policy, permitting, ...
California’s data centers have doubled their use of electricity and demand for water , and are polluting more, even as lawmakers stall on oversight.