A spike in demand for electricity from tech companies competing in the artificial intelligence race is upending forecasts for natural gas-fired power in the U.S., as utilities reconsider it as a major ...

The promise was striking: 500 jobs, $6.4 billion in investment and millions in new tax revenue for a rural North Carolina community. But when the Tarboro Town Council took up the proposal for a ...

When Meta selected a site in Louisiana for its largest data center to date, it signed a deal with Entergy to power the site with three massive natural gas power plants. Yesterday evening, a state ...

A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric tons of ...

There’s a power crunch looming as AI and cloud providers ramp up data center construction. But a new report suggests that a solution lies beneath their foundations. Advanced geothermal power could ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting a proposed regulation that would end all federal limits on planet-warming pollution generated by coal and gas-fired power plants, according to documents ...

The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases. By Maxine Joselow ...

Current Climate brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In the last two years, hundreds of so-called hyperscale data centers have ...

Just outside Belém, the Amazonian city where the world is meeting to discuss climate change, electricity is a very recent arrival. Just outside Belém, the Amazonian city where the world is meeting to ...

PARIS, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Some of Europe's ageing coal and gas fired power plants can look forward to a more high-tech future as big tech players, such as Microsoft and Amazon, seek to repurpose them ...