Electricity demand is surging all across the U.S. While this leap is driven by exciting advancements — new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the resurgence of U.S. manufacturing, and the ...

In February 2021, a winter storm swept across the U.S. and numbed Texas with record-breaking low temperatures. Just as heating demand skyrocketed, many natural gas plants and a handful of wind ...

The rising energy cost of data centers is a vital test case for how we deal with the broader electrification of the economy. With seemingly no limit to the demand for artificial intelligence, everyone ...

The United States faces an energy crunch of historic proportions. After nearly 20 years of flat demand, electricity use is now growing at its fastest rate since World War II. The U.S. economy ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

Not all states have gotten hit equally hard. The reasons are complex. By Brad Plumer Harry Stevens and Rebecca F. Elliott Millions of Americans have watched with dismay as their electricity bills have ...