6 stories tagged energy.
Amazon's 7.65-gigawatt off-grid gas plant in Texas, permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 per year for AI data center power, is twice the output of the worst US coal plant.
A 60-day FERC test for large-load interconnection means AI builders should treat power flexibility as product infrastructure.
Flexible data centers let AI sites cut load for a few peak hours, with Duke finding 76 GW of headroom at 0.25% curtailment.
A 365-day pause on large new facilities: Seattle's data center moratorium makes 369 MW the warning label for AI roadmaps.
Shelbyville's $2B Prologis campus shows the AI data center backlash is now a zoning risk: trust can bottleneck compute before power does.
Google's 100 MW Voltus deal tests whether homes will flex for AI, using virtual power plants that coordinate flexible loads as capacity.