The increasing electricity consumption by AI and Bitcoin mining is causing significant concerns in the United States. Data centers, which are concentrated in specific regions, consume substantial ...
The electricity industry is undergoing an unprecedented transformation characterized by smaller-scale, decentralized, and digital technologies. But transitions are rarely easy. Significant challenges ...
A Texas utility thinks it can solve the AI electricity problem by balancing loads with residential customers. Additionally, batteries could be used to store excess electricity for future use. The ...
Tech companies charging ahead with artificial intelligence have a problem: AI’s rapid growth is colliding headlong with a finite amount of available energy and computing power. AI is evolving beyond ...
Willing to let your utility borrow your thermostat? It could help save billions of dollars in infrastructure costs while lowering your power bill. Jon is a managing editor for CNET's news and AI teams ...
Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column. President ...
Data centers are being blamed for America's rising electric bills. But the real issue is not that AI — and consumers in general — are boosting energy usage. The real problem is structural, and it ...