Most of Washington’s public energy debate centers on AI and data centers. The April 2026 E3 resource adequacy study — which The Seattle Times editorial board rightly called an alarm for every ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

American electricity bills are rising at the fastest pace in two decades, and the grid is straining under demand it wasn't designed to meet. Data centers chasing the AI boom are queuing up gigawatts ...

In the rolling hills near Reno, Nevada, in a field filled with solar panels, something unexpected is nestled into the landscape: a data center that isn’t blowing up its neighbors’ electric bills. In ...

Tech companies charging ahead with artificial intelligence have a problem: AI’s rapid growth is colliding headlong with a finite amount of available energy and computing power. AI is evolving beyond ...

Iron Mountain's NJE-1 data center integrates large-scale storage with the facility's existing 7.2 megawatt (MW) rooftop solar installation. Courtesy: Iron Mountain via BusinessWire If 90’s ...

A new study tracking 25 European countries from 2017 to 2023 documents a problematic reality: when droughts strike, hydropower and other renewables don’t work as well as they might. As a result, ...

Growth advantages can quickly become liabilities when customers exit faster than expected. Fixed costs don’t vanish — they become more painful as users leave. A lot of leaders talk about economies of ...

Grid-enhanced technologies (GETs) are designed to upgrade aging power infrastructure quickly and cost-effectively, avoiding the need for new transmission lines. Advanced conductors utilize improved ...

There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem. As more and more electric vehicles tap the grid, their giant batteries ...