Artificial Intelligence & Data Centers

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas

El Paso Electric is seeking approval for a 366-megawatt natural gas power plant that will fuel Meta’s project. Residents worry a new power plant would worsen air pollution and guzzle water.

By Martha Pskowski

An Alabama Mayor Signed an NDA With a Data Center Developer. Read It Here.

By Lee Hedgepeth

Clean Energy Advocates Criticize ‘Glaring’ Omission in White House Plan to Fuel Data Centers in PJM Region

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense

As Data Centers Jostle to Get on Texas’ Grid, ERCOT Promises New Rules for ‘Batch Zero’

By Arcelia Martin

Bessemer Data Center Developer to Request Rezoning for Additional 900 Acres

By Lee Hedgepeth

Wyoming County Approves Construction of What Could Become the Largest Data Center in US

By Leigh Reagan Smith

Virginia Regulators Approve New Dominion Rates, Assign More Costs to Data Centers

By Charles Paullin

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

Illinois Is Going All In on Battery Storage. What Will That Mean?

By Alexia Underwood

Michigan Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Repeal Data Center Tax Incentives

By Tom Perkins

Virginia Regulators Weigh Expanded Use of Data Center’s Polluting Generators 

By Charles Paullin

How Batteries Could Play a Role in Data Center Rollouts

By Arcelia Martin

Environmental Groups Demand a Nationwide Freeze on Data Center Construction

By Lauren Dalban

Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country

By Anika Jane Beamer

Virginia Regulators Approve First New Gas Plant Since Passage of Clean Economy Act

By Charles Paullin

Alabama Regulators Approve Two-Year Electric Rate Freeze and Two Solar Projects for a Meta Inc. Data Center

By Dennis Pillion

Members of America’s Largest Power Grid Can’t Agree on How to Power Data Centers

By Rambo Talabong

Maine’s First Major Data Center Project Touts Green Innovation

By Ryan Krugman

County Planning Commission in Virginia Delays Vote Again on Proposed Gas Plant That Aims to Link to PJM Grid

By Charles Paullin