Naureen S Malik

Sunrun Inc. is in discussions with data center developers to supply distributed solar power generation for their facilities, Chief Executive Officer Mary Powell said.

CenterPoint Energy Inc. has seen a 700% increase in requests from data center developers to connect to its Houston-area utility within months.

Some of the world’s biggest managers of private capital are making moves to finance and invest in nuclear power plants, latching onto a revival in the sector driven in part by tech giants’ electricity-intensive AI ambitions.

Some of the world's biggest managers of private capital are making moves to finance and invest in nuclear power plants, latching onto a revival in the sector driven in part by tech giants' electricity-intensive AI ambitions.

Soaring demand for data centers to support artificial intelligence and cloud-computing will boost global spending in the sector to $250 billion a year, according to KKR & Co.

Supporting the development of data centers — including providing the enormous amounts of electricity they require — is a matter of national security, a top federal energy regulator said.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected an agreement that would have allowed an Amazon Inc data center to directly tap into power from an Pennsylvania nuclear plant.

Talen Energy Corp. and other US power company stocks slumped Monday following the rejection by the country’s top energy regulator of Talen’s plan to supply a data center.

Problems plaguing power supplies to more than 5 million US households threaten to reduce efficiency and damage home appliances, with Chicago the worst-affected area.

The entire US Northeast faces an elevated threat of electricity shortages this winter during extreme cold weather, in part due to limited capacity on natural gas pipelines that supply power plants.