Today, nearly every utility is facing a huge influx of requests for intermittent clean energy projects to join the grid at a time when data centers are requiring around-the-clock firm power on a ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In an increasingly AI-driven world, data centers are a necessity to power innovation.

But with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Oracle, and OpenAI planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on data centers in places ...

Sightline, a nonpartisan nonprofit that promotes clean power use, suggests strategies that allow for data center expansion while bringing new renewable energy sources online. “[T]ech companies ...

A dozen environmental groups are warning that powering a massive Microsoft data center in Mount Pleasant with methane gas power plants would push Wisconsin backwards in the quest for clean energy.

“Our power grid is struggling to keep up with a surge in demand for energy, largely caused by new data centers,” Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition lobbyist Kady McFadden said at the news conferenc ...

AI growth increases demand for data centers, in turn driving the need for clean energy solutions. Big Tech's clean energy commitments can also help startups scale at a time when funding has slowed.