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This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

The amount of ERCOT‘s large load interconnection requests ballooned to more than 230 gigawatts this year, a massive increase from the 63 gigawatts reported in December 2024. The agency, which operates ...

Planned data center construction shows no signs of fading, with new additions to require 2.7x — nearly triple — the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade, according to a new ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission took another step this week toward addressing the growth of what they call “large-load” power customers, like data centers. Earlier ...

In late October 2025, at the direction of the Secretary of the US Department of Energy (“DOE”), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) opened a preliminary rulemaking ...

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AES laid out two resource plans for how it will add energy capacity over the next 15 years, including one if data centers come online. AES plans to file the plan on Oct. 31 to get approval from the ...

In June, Business Insider published an investigation into the data center industry. We wanted to dig into the pace of growth in light of the artificial intelligence boom, as well as the resources the ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

Mark Strassmann is CBS News' senior national correspondent based in Atlanta. He covers a wide range of stories, including space exploration. Strassmann is also the senior national correspondent for ...

Summer always increases electricity bills, as more people use electricity for air conditioning. But there’s another issue popping up this year: Not AC, but AI. Households are now competing against ...