Global Data Centers Face Doubling Electricity Demand Amid Tariff Strains

Lawmakers fear AI data centers will drive up residents’ power bills

By Alex Brown, Stateline.org For the first time in decades, America needs to produce more electricity. Related Articles Google’s digital ad network declared an illegal monopoly, joining its search engine in penalty box OpenAI picks labor icon Dolores Huerta and other philanthropy advisers as it moves toward for-profit Spotify says it’s back after an hourslong outage disrupts thousands of users …

High Voltage, Higher Stakes: How the Information Economy Is Rewiring Energy Markets

A.I. is straining the energy grid, but data center developers are turning to innovative power solutions—some of them decades old.

At best, they get a 'D'

When it comes to the recently completed 60-day legislative session, if the only goal was to potentially bring data centers to West Virginia that are powered by microgrids, then perhaps lawmakers should get an A.

Innovative Solutions Imperative to Meet Data Center Energy Demand

Today’s data centers, the workhorses of our digital economy, face a paradox. While they are asked to fuel the rapid advancement of generative AI, they must do so under increasingly tight energy budgets, with sustainability mandates and power constraints threatening to slow innovation. The question isn’t whether AI will transform industries—it already is—but whether our infrastructure can keep up without buckling under the weight of AI’s energy a…

We are in the information age, artificial intelligence has found its way into all pores of life, and the food for it is electricity.

The digital revolution has dramatically multiplied the demand for data storage and processing. At the center of this phenomenon are data centers (or data centers), large technological infrastructures that house essential servers for digital services, artificial intelligence, and everyday applications. While most of these centers are still concentrated in developed countries, Latin America and the Caribbean already has 455 active facilities. But …