Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general ...
NJBIZ

Greencrown guides businesses through energy price hikes

Greencrown helps businesses reduce energy spend and risk Offers proprietary Utility ROI platform for real-time tracking Named to 2025 Inc. Regional: Northeast list, ranked No. 66 Serves ...
FedScoop

House bill targets rising rural utility costs from AI data centers

Aerial shot of a data center for cryptocurrency mining, cloud services and AI computing in a large, temperature controlled warehouse in a remote location in Stutsman County, North Dakota. (Getty ...
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Data Center Demand Fuels Unprecedented Utility Investment

US power utilities are projected to spend a record $212.1 billion in capital expenditures this year, primarily driven by the need to secure new electricity supply for data centers. Investment in ...
WOSU Public Media

State utility officials approve AEP Ohio's building onsite energy generators at two data centers

Utility regulators gave a green light to AEP Ohio to install onsite power generators at two large data centers. It will allow the centers to expand with a secondary power source that doesn't take ...
Business Wire

Torus Secures $67 Million in Venture Financing to Advance Energy Storage and Energy Management Platform

SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Torus, Inc. today announced a significant milestone in its journey: the successful completion of an equity fundraising round and the expansion of its Board ...
POWER Magazine

Using Data to Drive Power Decisions with Energy Management as a Service (EMaaS™)

Instead of deploying standalone equipment, EMaaS™ delivers the most efficient load transfer whenever you need it — supplementing utility power, providing power where infrastructure doesn’t exist yet ...
WUNC

State utility regulators grappling with data center energy demand, ratepayer protections

The North Carolina Utilities Commission listen to testimony in their downtown Raleigh hearing room on October 14, 2025. Different stakeholders presented to the commission ideas for how to balance ...
WTEN

Data center boom straining power grid as New York asks who should pay

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The New York State Assembly held a hearing on Thursday to examine rising energy costs for everyday utility customers tied to new consumers on the electric grid, like ...
Power Engineering

Here comes a utility-scale battery designed for data centers that doesn’t require uninterruptible power supply infrastructure

If Spider-Man’s uncle (or Voltaire, I guess) has taught us anything, it’s that with great power comes great responsibility. In an age of unprecedented load growth spurred by resource-intensive, always ...
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Utility I&M wants to fast-track energy for AI data centers. How much will its other customers pay?

A model of the AI data center planned for Jeffersonville. The utility Indiana Michigan Power expects that by 2030, AI data centers planned for its territory will use more electricity every year ...