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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

Power and Grids

A fusion company just joined a line of 810 projects waiting to plug into America’s biggest grid — and Google already bought its power

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

North America’s grid watchdog just issued a Level 3 alert over data centers going offline without warning — the highest tier the system allows

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM just forecast a 6-gigawatt power shortage by 2027 as AI data centers eat through available generating capacity across 13 states

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Commonwealth Fusion just filed the first-ever application to connect a commercial fusion plant to a U.S. grid — targeting the PJM Interconnection in the early 2030s

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

The lead time for a high-power grid transformer just stretched from 30 months to 5 years — bottlenecking every new AI data center trying to connect

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM — the U.S. grid serving 65 million people — just warned it has ‘years, not decades’ to restructure as AI loads threaten the system

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents are about to lose 75% of their power as their utility reroutes lines to hungry AI data centers nearby

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM’s power capacity shortfall just hit 6 gigawatts for 2027 — enough to black out six mid-sized U.S. cities at peak demand

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

AI power demand at data centers can now swing hundreds of megawatts in seconds — outpacing every traditional grid response

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

American Electric Power just threatened to quit two of the biggest U.S. power grids over delays connecting new AI data centers

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM — the U.S. grid serving 65 million people — projects a 6 gigawatt power shortage by 2027 as AI data centers swallow capacity

By Everett Sloane
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