Energy and utilities leaders face a tipping point as AI scale, grid complexity and sustainability demands collide.

An i ncreasingly complex set of rules governs utility electric grids, and the financial consequences of failing to comply are rising. Utilities also face a business imperative to maximize grid ...

In letters to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) ...

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 its ...

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. AI’s integration into our lives is ...

In the race to dominate artificial intelligence, technology companies are fueling an unprecedented expansion of data centers. These digital infrastructures power everything from search engines to ...

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright recently sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission directing it to open a rulemaking to facilitate access to the electrical grid by both new generating ...

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 ...

Ari Peskoe is the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program (EELP). EELP receives funding from philanthropic foundations that support ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. A July 11 post in a Hoboken, New Jersey, parenting group on ...