Texas is quickly becoming a major hub for the AI boom, but the massive electricity demand tied to that growth is now ...

The Energy Department has finalized a $3.26 billion loan for a subsidiary of utility giant American Electric Power to upgrade thousands of transmission lines across Texas, helping the state’s ...

Texas is staring down an electricity crisis that has no modern precedent. Under the most aggressive growth scenarios, the state’s grid operator projects that peak power demand on the ERCOT system ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. Surging power demand and lengthy grid buildout timelines are tightening power margin outlooks and turning data center developers ...

June 5 (Reuters) - Several large data centers and crypto facilities planning to connect to the Texas power grid ahead of peak summer demand have failed key reliability tests, raising the risk of power ...

The Texas electric grid could experience a new all-time peak demand this summer thanks to a combination of hotter temperatures and growing number of large electricity users, like data centers. Despite ...

Officials who operate the Texas grid issued a forecast this week predicting that the state’s electricity demand could more than quadruple by 2032 to a whopping 368 gigawatts — mostly because of new ...

Texas has been flooded with requests from data centers looking to join its power grid. The state is trying to sort out who’s actually serious about doing business in Texas and which projects are ...

HOUSTON — Jeff and Jenny Wright haven’t paid an electric bill for their Houston home in more than a year. Instead, the couple sells their unused power back to the grid in a system that some states ...

Several large data centers, crypto sites failed grid reliability tests ahead of summer peak ERCOT reviewing failures, developing mitigation plans as abrupt disconnections risk outages Regulators ...