Opinion

The Data Center Price Myth

Rising electricity prices are being pinned on data centers, but demand isn’t what makes power expensive. A simple story has taken hold in American politics: Big Tech is consuming vast amounts of ...
Consumers see data centers as the energy-hungry culprits behind rising energy prices. Utilities see data centers as large customers who could help finance grid upgrades. As the data center boom ...
The intensifying global competition for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance has turned the race to attract data centers ...
The number of new data centers to be built in South Korea over the next five years has reached 150, with their required power ...
As AI-driven power demand accelerates, geothermal energy is quietly moving from conceptual promise toward early execution: ...
Power lines extend north from Wildlands Conservancy's South Mountain Preserve in Emmaus, with the PPL Building in Center City Allentown visible in the background, on Aug. 16, 2025. The Pennsylvania ...
As data center developers invest billions in Pennsylvania, the state is weighing who should pay the literal price of their arrival. The Public Utility Commission is set to develop a proposed model ...
For decades, data centers were designed with permanence in mind: fixed plans, rigid shapes and predictable life cycles. Physical constraints of legacy architectures made them inherently static. But in ...