As triple-digit temperatures engulf much of the United States, the Trump administration wants grid managers to require the use of backup power that often goes unused. By Ivan Penn and Hilary Howard As ...

Chevron Corp. signed a 20-year deal with Microsoft Corp. to provide natural-gas fired power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US. The proposed plant, ...

To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo The successful IPO of Elon Musk's SpaceX may help bring the questionable idea of AI data centers ...

A Republican senator introduced legislation Wednesday that, if it is adopted, would set federal rules around how data centers can plug into the electric grid as AI energy consumption has become a ...

Developers expect continued data center expansion through 2030 as AI adoption accelerates. Access to power remains the biggest challenge to growth, with 61% of developers planning to bring their own ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient Maya site of El Palmar in Campeche, Mexico, have discovered what may be the earliest known Long Count calendar date in the Maya lowlands. It is carved into a ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s a lofty goal: Build the first “energy grid” in space to beam power to satellites, and even to future data centers in orbit, if companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX succeed in ...

A new deal between Google and Voltus will take advantage of flexibility on the grid. Would you take a payment to ramp down your electricity use? Would it change anything if you were doing so to help ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

Microsoft Build 2026 demonstrates how data, AI, and ERP are converging as enterprises build the infrastructure and operational foundations for autonomous operations.

Job-openings data, due at 10 a.m. Eastern, highlights the day's economics news. "A consensus print [of 6.9 million openings] would bring the job/jobless ratio down to 0.93 from 0.95 prior," notes BMO ...

The Nevada-based power supplier for California's Lake Tahoe region, NV Energy, has said it can no longer supply Liberty Utilities, the electric utility that serves communities in the area, because of ...