OpenAI said it would pay higher electricity prices for the giant data centers it is building across the U.S., the tech industry’s latest pledge to address fears about rising utility costs and ...

How the explosive growth in the number of large data centers, especially those supporting AI services, is approaching, or exceeding the generating capacities of many regional power grids. How many ...

In an interview at WP Studio in Davos, White House tech adviser Michael Kratsios said companies should “be paying their own way” for data center buildouts.

WSJ’s Aaron Zitner breaks down three warning signs from the latest WSJ poll for President Trump and the Republican party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Photo: Umit Gulsen; Evan Vucci/Associated ...

The Trump administration is pressing the nation’s largest electric grid operator to conduct an emergency power auction as part of a broader effort to make tech giants cover soaring data center power ...

Electricity prices have increased by 5.5% over the past year, with natural gas rising even more sharply, impacting residential consumers especially those with lower incomes. Public support remains ...

Trump administration officials and a bipartisan group of governors announced a plan Friday to tackle high electricity prices by essentially having giant technology companies pay for the construction ...

President Donald Trump and the governors of several US Northeastern states agreed to push for an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would compel technology companies to effectively fund new ...

The Trump administration and a consortium of governors from northeastern states are asking PJM, the country’s largest electrical grid operator, to hold an emergency power auction as part of an effort ...

Despite many proposals, there is little consensus among governors, lawmakers and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity. By Ivan Penn and ...

(The Center Square) – A bill aiming to lower electricity prices for Californians cleared another hurdle on its way to becoming law. Assembly Bill 710, authored by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, ...

Microsoft said it will pay higher electricity and grid upgrade costs for its data centers to prevent local utility customers from bearing higher power prices tied to AI demand. Letters to the editor: ...