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Big Tech wants to plug data centres right into power plants
Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it's not fair
Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a fraying electric grid that serves everyone else.
Big Tech wants to plug data centers into power plants, avoiding electric grids
Amazon Web Services is building a data center next to the Susquehanna nuclear plant, and TMI is planning to reopen to power a Microsoft facility.
Data center growth puts unprecedented pressure on power grids
The report, based on a survey of 100 data center leaders, also shows that 30% of all sites will be using onsite power by 2030. For reference, McKinsey research estimates that there was 25 gigawatts worth of demand in 2024.
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Behind $500 billion AI data center plan, US startups jockey with tech giants
This week's announcement by President Donald Trump of a massive private-sector investment to build more AI data centers casts ...
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Stargate's First Data Center Site is Size of Central Park, With At Least 57 Jobs
About 875 acres in Abilene, or roughly the size of New York’s Central Park, have been set aside to construct data centers, ...
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Data centers are booming in Texas. What does that mean for the grid?
The rise of artificial intelligence, the digitization of the economy and everyday life’s growing computing needs have ...
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First data center for Trump administration's Stargate AI initiative coming to Abilene
Stargate's first data center campus, located in Abilene, will be about 875 acres, but only says it will create at least 57 ...
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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he has a big AI data center, too
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the ...
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How data centers work and why AI is driving their growth
A look at how data centers operate, and why they require a lot of electricity and water. (AP animation/Donavon Brutus) ...
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Amazon spends $102 million in Ohio for data center land. Are server farms, data centers the same?
Amazon bought hundreds of acres of land in Ohio to build a massive data center. Are server farms and data centers different?
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Could more data centers come to Oklahoma? UAE-based company announces $20B investment plan
A UAE investment firm planned to expand across eight states in the sunbelt. Government officials commented on the potential ...
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Blackstone to buy $1 billion Virginia power plant near data centers
The unit of Blackstone dedicated to investments in the energy industry has agreed to acquire Potomac Energy Center, the asset ...
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Bill Gates’ nuclear energy startup inks new data center deal
TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, struck a deal this week with one of the largest data center ...
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OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project
OpenAI has announced that it's teaming up with Softbank and Oracle on $100 billion data center project in the U.S.
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