President Donald Trump gathered seven tech leaders at the White House to sign a ratepayer protection pledge holding that they will pay all the costs associated with the boom in construction of data centers.

Columnist Dej Knuckey says there’s no doubt AI can be exponentially faster, smarter, and more innovative and efficient than the current workforce, but can it be reliable?

FERC Commissioner David LaCerte was back before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, just four months after being sworn in, for a hearing on his nomination for a full five-year term.

CAISO wants to ensure grid reliability when artificial intelligence data centers “pulsate.”

EPRI, InfraPartners, NVIDIA and Prologis will assess ways data centers in the 5- to 20-MW range can be built quickly at or near utility substations that have available capacity.

MISO announced it will partner with Microsoft’s AI technologies to operate its markets and plan its system.

MISO is re-examining its longstanding policy that forbids stakeholders from recording meetings and is considering the possibility of some form of AI notetaking or transcription.

The defining story of the coming year will be the widening chasm between electricity supply and demand, a dynamic driven by a slow-moving supply side, coupled with the explosive growth of energy-hungry data centers, says columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler.

In new guidance, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency sought to help utilities integrate artificial intelligence into their operational technology environments.

IEA released its 2025 World Energy Outlook, which shows the growing importance of electricity as residents start to adopt air conditioning and data centers and other large loads drive demand growth in rich countries.