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 ...

Electricity bills are climbing nationwide, rising faster than inflation in many places. The explosive growth of AI and the massive data centers behind it are driving demand and straining the grid. To ...

The rising energy cost of data centers is a vital test case for how we deal with the broader electrification of the economy. With seemingly no limit to the demand for artificial intelligence, everyone ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...