Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that all new data center projects must be audited by the state's Public Utility Commission and grid operator ERCOT, which is now tracking 474 gigawatts of interconnection requests — r...
On Meta's quarterly earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg predicted that within five years billions of people will have personal AI agents working on their behalf across finance, health, relationships, and household management,...
PJM Interconnection, the largest US electrical grid operator, announced it will cut power to data centers of 50 megawatts or larger during shortages beginning June 2027, after a capacity auction fell short. The move foll...
A downed power line near Washington, DC triggered roughly 3.1 gigawatts of Northern Virginia data centers to switch to backup power within 30 seconds, destabilizing the PJM grid for over 11 minutes and causing regional v...
OpenAI announced it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, up 25% from earlier estimates, beginning with a $20 billion, 3.2-gigawatt data center campus in Georgia called Project Camellia. The company wil...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order temporarily halting permits for new data centers exceeding 50 megawatts. The pause is intended to allow the state to complete an environmental review addressin...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has ordered major grid operators to fast-track interconnection requests from data centers to support rapid AI expansion. This directive addresses severe grid backlogs that threate...
Australian data center operator AirTrunk has committed to investing $30 billion in India by 2030 to develop 5 gigawatts of new computing capacity. This investment aligns with India's efforts to attract foreign cloud and...
SoftBank Group has announced plans to invest up to €75 billion to develop 5 gigawatts of data center capacity in France by 2031. This project represents the firm's largest AI infrastructure investment in Europe, aimed at...
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have introduced legislation to ban construction of data centers with peak power loads exceeding 20 megawatts until comprehensive AI regulation is enacted...
