Data centers are created by the nation’s wealthiest companies, like Meta. But in Louisiana, utility billpayers could cover up to 75% of AI data-center costs, thanks to a fast-track policy quietly ...

It all started innocently enough: When we asked where our stored electronic information went, we were told “the cloud. ”Sounds nice. Information stored in a puffy white setting. Of course, there is no ...

In the past year, plans for two gargantuan data centers have been announced in New Mexico, and electric utilities have come to see data center development as a driving force behind growth and need ...

Electric utilities have long been stewards of vast data sets: kilowatt hour reads, outage logs, SCADA snapshots. What has shifted is the speed at which those numbers must inform strategic decisions.

Experts believe that data center demand could drive global electricity usage to grow significantly for decades. These five high-yielding utility stocks could benefit from the huge increase in ...