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56 articles covering "data-centers"
A brutal early-July heat wave pushed PJM's forecast demand to 166.3 GW, threatening the grid's 165,563 MW record from 2006, as DOE ordered emergency fossil-fuel dispatch and data-center curtailment.
Microsoft and Chevron unveiled Project Kilby, a co-located 2.67-gigawatt natural gas plant in West Texas that will supply a Microsoft AI and cloud data center under a 20-year power agreement.
DriveNets unveiled two Broadcom Tomahawk 6-based AI fabric platforms, the liquid-cooled 2600SL and air-cooled 2601S, each carrying 64 ports of 1.6 Tb/s for 102.4 Tb/s of capacity.
The AI infrastructure developer's wholesale supply agreement anchors a new 200 MW/800 MWh grid-forming battery and commits Gunvor to 1.2 GW of renewables and 1.5 GWh of storage by 2032.
FERC issued unanimous show-cause orders to all six regional grid operators, giving them until August 17 to justify or revise how data centers above 20 MW connect to the grid.
The Blackstone-backed Pediment battery storage system is now serving customers in Arizona, the first of two Aypa projects contracted with Salt River Project.
T1 Energy, the former FREYR, agreed to acquire battery storage provider KORE Power for about $32 million, adding 1,100 deployed projects.
Uptime's 2026 report marks a fifth straight year of declining outage frequency, but 57% of major outages now cost over $100,000 and power remains the top cause.
The US installed 9.7 GWh of new battery storage in Q1 2026—a 32% year-over-year jump and the highest first quarter ever recorded—as data center expansion and global gas disruptions outweigh federal permitting headwinds.
Ford on May 11 announced Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary backed by roughly $2 billion that will build a 20-foot containerized BESS at a repurposed Kentucky plant, with first customer deliveries in late 2027.
Houston gas-microgrid maker VoltaGrid took $775M in primary and $225M in secondary from Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and Halliburton, and is buying its main supplier Propell to lock in a 7.5 GW order book through 2030.
EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure closed $1.5 billion in senior secured term loans for AS01 and AS02 in Sterling, Virginia, two single-tenant facilities totaling 114 MW and 685,000 square feet, with AS01 going live in November 2026 and AS02 in July 2027.