USA Today

America’s aging power grid faces new demands | The Excerpt

On the Monday, March 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing the U.S. power grid in new ways. How can we ensure its reliability?
The New York Times

Why tech giants are ditching the power grid

In a few short years, the technology industry has transformed places like central Ohio, where farmland is giving way to data centers and computer chip factories. In a few short years, the technology ...
Reuters

US utilities scale up grid-boosting tech to meet surging demand

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. U.S. grid owners are investing in cost-efficient grid enhancements and virtual power plant schemes to help meet soaring demand but ...
Wall Street Journal

A New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
The Guardian

From pylons to plug sockets: what makes up the UK’s electricity grid?

Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team. For nearly a century, a system of turbines, substations, wires and more has powered everything from ...
The Guardian

Upgrading the grid: the great energy transition in numbers

Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team. As the UK moves towards a carbon-free future, the supply and demand for clean energy is set to soar, ...
Electrek

The US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery is now online

Peak Energy just switched on a 3.5 MWh sodium-ion battery, the largest sodium-ion energy storage project developed in the US. The system is the first of its kind at grid scale, and may eventually be a ...
MIT Technology Review

AI is changing the grid. Could it help more than it harms?

Massive data centers are pushing energy demand higher. Some people claim that AI will be a net benefit for the grid. The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so ...
Forbes

Is The U.S. Headed For A Power Grid Crisis?

PEMBROKE PINES, FLORIDA - MAY 16: High voltage power lines run along the electrical power grid on May 16, 2024, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The grid is strained by increasing demand from ...
TheServerSide

Java Scanner import

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. There are two ways to implement the Java Scanner import: explicitly reference the ...