ERCOT’s large load queue jumped almost 300% last year

Data centers make up more than 70% of the total. The surge has “outgrown the process that was established for reviewing these ...
POWER Magazine

Data Centers Can Be a Flexible Power Load-Here’s Why That Matters

Across the U.S., new AI-driven data centers are causing a significant increase in power demand. Carbon Direct projects that data center capacity in the U.S. will grow from roughly 25 GW in 2024 to 120 ...
Forbes

Rayburn Electric Could Quadruple With Data Center Load

Rayburn Electric, the rural electric cooperative generation and transmission association located northeast of Dallas, is preparing for the future as best it knows how: building more generation. That ...
OilPrice.com

Data Centers Drive Record Costs in PJM Power Capacity Auctions

Data centers drove roughly 40% of PJM’s latest capacity auction costs, with billions tied to facilities not yet built but ...
POWER Magazine

FERC Acts on Four Reliability Standards, Probes AI and Data Center Load Forecasting

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Sept. 18 advanced four reliability measures for the U.S. bulk power system (BPS), formalizing frameworks around supply chain risk, cloud computing ...