Using less electricity as a response to high demand had been a nonstarter for big tech companies. That might be changing. For years, calculating the power needs for data centers has revolved around ...

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This past summer, a fire at an electrical substation forced data centers in Loudoun County to rely on backup diesel generators as their power source. Grid failures like this happen often, but this ...

Mr. Norris is a doctoral student at Duke University studying electric power systems. Amy Wasserman and her husband were stunned when the energy bill for their home in Wilmington, Del., topped $500 in ...

The proliferation of data centers in Arizona raises concerns about the strain on the state's water and power resources. Existing and planned data centers in Maricopa County could nearly double the ...

As an electricity crunch drives bills higher around the country, big tech companies building power-hungry data centers are increasingly offering to pay for more of the energy they consume, so everyday ...

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California is a major hub for data centers — the facilities that store and transmit much of the internet. But just how much these power-hungry operations affect the state’s energy use, climate and ...