Opinion

The Data Center Price Myth

Rising electricity prices are being pinned on data centers, but demand isn’t what makes power expensive. A simple story has taken hold in American politics: Big Tech is consuming vast amounts of ...
The intensifying global competition for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance has turned the race to attract data centers ...
The number of new data centers to be built in South Korea over the next five years has reached 150, with their required power ...
Consumers see data centers as the energy-hungry culprits behind rising energy prices. Utilities see data centers as large customers who could help finance grid upgrades. As the data center boom ...
As AI-driven power demand accelerates, geothermal energy is quietly moving from conceptual promise toward early execution: ...
The study identifies AI data centers as a fundamentally distinct category of electricity consumer. Traditional data centers ...
As data center developers invest billions in Pennsylvania, the state is weighing who should pay the literal price of their arrival. The Public Utility Commission is set to develop a proposed model ...
Starcloud’s successful deployment of an orbital AI data center marks a pivotal test for space-based data center ...
Power lines extend north from Wildlands Conservancy's South Mountain Preserve in Emmaus, with the PPL Building in Center City Allentown visible in the background, on Aug. 16, 2025. The Pennsylvania ...
US Energy Dept. push by April 30, 2026 to have a larger federal role to expedite data center and other large load grid connections, comes as President Donald Trump signs order to pre-empt state ...
For decades, data centers were designed with permanence in mind: fixed plans, rigid shapes and predictable life cycles. Physical constraints of legacy architectures made them inherently static. But in ...