June 18 (Reuters) - The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on Thursday approved the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' (ERCOT) first "Batch Zero" process for ‌large electricity users, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Avista confirmed on Tuesday that a potential "large load" project that the company is considering is a data center development. According to recent filings with the U.S. Securities ...

Spokane, WASH. -- Avista confirmed today that the 'large load customer' it entered into an agreement with that would consume as much electricity as half the utility's service area in Eastern ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Tuesday approved stricter rules that data centers and other large electricity users will have to meet in order to connect to the grid. The new criteria and ...

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) voted Tuesday to streamline its process for data centers looking to connect to the power grid. The vote comes as ERCOT is wading through a massive ...

Sen. Adam Schiff has introduced the “Energy Cost Fairness and Reliability Act of 2026,” targeting the growing electricity demands of AI data centers and other large energy users. The bill would ...

Microsoft is updating the Edge web browser to ensure it no longer loads saved passwords into process memory in clear text at startup after previously stating it was "by design." This behavior was ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via Gemini. When large electrical loads, like data centers, come offline quickly, bad things can happen to the power grid. As more such customers connect to the U.S. bulk power ...

The world's electricity demand rose by 3% in 2025, with growth nearly triple compared to the 1.3% increase in total energy consumption, as data centers and electric vehicles continued to push power ...

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Maine looks poised to become the first state to freeze building of new data centers with legislation that could pass this spring, but community backlash against these properties is spreading across ...

Xcel Energy submitted a proposal to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission aimed at addressing rising concerns about the growth of its business with data center customers. The energy provider said ...