Pennsylvania electricity prices rose nearly 12% year over year as higher PJM wholesale energy and capacity costs increasingly flow through to customer bills.
As AI reshapes power demand, hyperscalers are no longer just buying electricity — they're financing, building, and owning the generation behind it.
Utilities are planning record grid investment, but Fitch warns that affordability pressure and regulatory resistance threaten timely cost recovery.
Power, not land, is the scarcest asset in data center development. How "powered land," early interconnection, and onsite generation are reshaping site selection.
Virginia preserved its data center equipment tax break while adding a new electricity consumption tax that raises ongoing costs for qualifying facilities.
A survey of 400-plus data center executives and widening bond spreads point the same direction: construction problems are showing up in financing costs.
GM will install IONATE’s smart transformer technology at its Romulus plant. The project aims to improve power visibility, quality and resilience.
Flatbed demand tied to data centers and energy projects has surged, adding transportation risk after transformers and other equipment leave the factory.
Data center, power and infrastructure megaprojects are concentrating risk across the same contractor and surety markets, straining bonding capacity.
A shortage of qualified electrical commissioning crews delays energization on projects already built, adding months after construction is finished.
When a heat dome settled across the Eastern Seaboard this July, it revealed something the energy industry has been reckoning with: expanding AI data centers have changed what it means for the …
A transformer and switchgear shortage threatening data center development is also affecting utilities, power projects, and broader industrial expansion.
A Dutch project pairing a data center with greenhouse growers shows how waste heat recovery can reduce grid congestion while replacing natural gas.
South Korea's government has committed to an 18.4 GW AI data center buildout backed by discounted power and land rights, ahead of confirmed demand.
Saudi Arabia is combining incentives, sovereign financing, data center construction and access to advanced chips to accelerate its AI infrastructure buildout.
Kevin O'Leary's Utah data center plans to run on dedicated natural gas, joining a growing list of AI campuses built to sidestep grid connection queues.
Iberdrola's equity stake in a Spanish data center joint venture shows European utilities trading land and grid access for ownership, not just power contracts.
Intel is cutting Data Center Group jobs even as AI infrastructure spending is set to reach $487 billion in 2026, per IDC, as electricity demand keeps rising.
Maryland's Supreme Court vacated a $25,000 fee award in a records case that exposed secret Frederick County talks with Amazon over data center rezoning.
Australia's data center load is surging, but federal law excludes nuclear power from a grid plan built around renewables, storage, transmission and gas backup.