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Power and Grids

America’s largest grid operator just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI devours power — the system serving 65 million bracing for shortfalls by 2027

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

A utility is building a giant grid battery on the bones of a shuttered nuclear plant — turning a decommissioned reactor site into a 640-megawatt-hour power bank

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

The biggest new power line in a generation just cleared its final hurdle — a cross-country link built to carry cheap wind power to where it’s needed most

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s grid batteries just set a record — stored electricity now discharging enough at peak to replace dozens of power plants in a matter of seconds

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Data centers are on track to triple their slice of U.S. electricity by 2028 — climbing from roughly 4% to 12% in just five years

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM warns the largest U.S. grid could slip below reliability standards by 2027 — raising the odds of rolling blackouts in the next deep freeze

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s power grids just caught a surprise break — AI data centers are plugging in far slower than utilities feared, easing the threat of summer blackouts

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Data centers are on track to triple their slice of U.S. electricity by 2028 — climbing from roughly 4% to 12% in just five years

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM warns the largest U.S. grid could slip below reliability standards by 2027 — raising the odds of rolling blackouts in the next deep freeze

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s power grids just caught a surprise break — AI data centers are plugging in far slower than utilities feared, easing the threat of summer blackouts

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Data centers are on track to triple their share of U.S. electricity by 2028 — climbing from roughly 4% to 12% in just five years

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Data centers are now pulling so much power that some utilities are cutting homes off first — driving a rush to rooftop solar and backup batteries

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Data centers drove half of all U.S. electricity demand growth last year — and utilities are now scrambling to keep the lights on

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM warns the largest U.S. grid could slip below reliability standards by 2027 — raising the odds of rolling blackouts in the next deep freeze

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

U.S. power demand will still climb 11 gigawatts this summer — enough to light more than 8 million homes — even as data-center hookups slow

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Denmark just slammed the brakes on new data centers entirely — pausing construction as surging server farms threaten to overwhelm the national grid

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Britain just picked the site for its first small modular reactors at Wylfa — a single project built to pump 1.5 gigawatts into the grid

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s power grids just caught a surprise summer break — AI data centers are plugging in far slower than utilities feared, easing the blackout threat

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

AEP just threatened to walk away from two power grids over connection delays as AI data-center demand buckles the nation’s largest utilities

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

The wait for a high-power grid transformer just stretched from 30 months to five years — stranding every new AI data center trying to connect

By Everett Sloane
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