Virginia Connection Newspapers

Are Data Centers Driving Dominion’s Power Needs?

On Oct. 15, 2024, Dominion Energy Virginia filed its 2024 Integrated Resource Plan, a comprehensive, long-term regional plan to meet growing power demand, much of it driven by data centers, according ...
Journal of Accountancy

AI tools for finance professionals to prepare and visualize data

AI tools are frequently used in data visualization — this article describes how they can make data preparation more efficient ...
Inc

Data Centers Are About to Use as Much Power as Japan—and the Solutions Are Getting Weird

Global electricity consumption for data centers is set to more than double by 2030. According to the International Energy Agency, consumption will hit around 945 TWh in just four years. That’s roughly ...
Reuters

Microsoft exploring using advanced power lines to make data centers more energy-efficient

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is exploring using superconducting power lines in its data centers, which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server ...
Wired

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...
The Verge

The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI data centers

Electricity costs spiked around ‘data center alley’ as frigid temperatures threatened the power grid. Electricity costs spiked around ‘data center alley’ as frigid temperatures threatened the power ...
Seeking Alpha

Bloom Energy: Solving The AI Data Center Power Bottleneck

The market is fixated on when Big Tech will generate economic value from the $400 billion-plus being poured into AI data center expansion annually. The market is missing the point.Monetization has ...
Los Angeles Times

This L.A. startup uses SpaceX tech to cool data centers with less power and no water

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As the artificial intelligence industry heats up, Karman Industries is trying to cool it down. The Signal Hill ...
CNN

Big tech is increasingly promising to pay for spiking power costs. But there’s not much to enforce it

As an electricity crunch drives bills higher around the country, big tech companies building power-hungry data centers are increasingly offering to pay for more of the energy they consume, so everyday ...
Wall Street Journal

Data Centers’ Power Failure

While I agree with Peter Huntsman’s assessment of the environmental lobby’s hijacking of U.S. energy policy, and the need for restoration of fossil fuel supply, his argument for catering to the energy ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
Electrek

Subaru’s US factory is now exporting clean power to itself

Subaru of Indiana Automotive has new rooftop solar, and it’s producing far more clean electricity than its new factory expansion even needs. The automaker has brought a 204-kilowatt rooftop solar ...