Companies such as Caterpillar and Cummins are pivoting to feed a booming market for once-prosaic power equipment.

U.S. electricity demand is set to hit record highs in 2026 and 2027, driven largely by the rapid expansion of AI and Big Tech data centers. The biggest constraint is the grid, particularly ...

Artificial intelligence is having a riotous summer. Models developed by the likes of Anthropic PBC and OpenAI have escaped testing sandboxes and in some cases then hacked into other systems. The ...

OpenAI is developing its own AI accelerator using Broadcom. Anthropic is also rumored to be exploring doing its own chip. As the developers of the most popular frontier models, one can expect they’ll ...

To solve this problem, TrustScale today announced the launch of Argus, a patent-pending AI assurance platform. Unlike “AI checking AI” approaches, Argus uses empirical evidence and deterministic ...

Compute clusters offer more processing capacity but at the cost of higher power. Software is needed to allocate resources ...

Tony Dokoupil’s job hinges on breaking news. He has recently been taking precious seconds to try and knit some of it together. On a recent Friday night, the “CBS Evening News” anchor stopped the ...

The largest electrical grid in the U.S. has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after an auction to add more generating capacity fell short, the grid’s operator, PJM ...

The Trump administration announced Monday that it is exempting power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain.

Just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, electricity flickered on and off for about 10 minutes. An engineer’s data says it happened throughout the Eastern half of the U.S., from Chicago, to Boston and Miami. He ...

The new data center is expected to use as much as energy as three other planned data center projects in Georgia combined.

This article is republished from The Conversation. The artificial intelligence boom in the United States is being matched by a data center building boom. There are more than 3,000 data centers in the ...