Soluna, a developer of sustainable data centers that convert excess renewable energy into computing power — such as bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence — announced that it secured 60 acres of land to build a new 187-megawatt data center in Texas, an important milestone in its expansion efforts.

RBN blog explores recent announcements from the major data center firms on investments to boost AI.

A quick look at Chevron and Exxon’s investment in powering data centers.

Crusoe, an AI infrastructure company backed by NVIDIA and Founders Fund, has embarked on a transformative journey to expand its data center capabilities, securing 4.5 gigawatts (GW) of natural gas power through a strategic joint venture with Engine No. 1, a San Francisco-based investment firm.

As the development of data centers shows no signs of slowing, a Virginia congressman is calling for a national strategic plan to address their impacts on communities.

William Sellers, solutions architect at DartPoints, shares insight on the impact that data center power demand will have on the natural gas industry.

A Houston-based company announced plans to build the world's largest data center hub powered by 100 percent 24/7 green energy.

Artificial intelligence is making data center electricity consumption more volatile and harder to predict. Industry executives say that will create problems for the growing number of data centers that produce some or all of their own power.

The Energy secretary said a plan to build data centers could help national labs and that his agency is “midstream” in assessing potential job cuts.

The U.S. Department of Energy is asking tech companies to propose artificial intelligence data centers that could be located at 16 of its federal sites, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Seven major U.S. grid operators have raised a unified alarm about an impending capacity crunch, warning that the pace and scale of explosive demand—including from data centers, manufacturing, and electrification—pose a precarious misalignment with accelerating generator retirements and transmission constraints.

New tariffs on steel, semiconductors, and critical components stand to alter the cost structure of data center operations. With supply chains in flux and expenses climbing, how will the industry adapt to sustain growth, efficiency, and technological innovation?

Accenture report discusses how power providers can overcome bottlenecks and supercharge growth.

A panel of experts touch on how power, land availability and other topics are reshaping site selection and business strategies.

The owners of what was once Pennsylvania’s biggest coal-fired power plant said that they will turn it into a $10 billion natural gas-powered data center campus designed to capitalize on the fast-growing energy demands of Big Tech companies to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing applications.

Eleven days after the massive smokestacks and cooling towers of Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plant came down in a dramatic fashion, Homer City Redevelopment announced that an even bigger natural gas power center would be built in its place. The Homer City Energy Campus will be a series of natural gas plants that will power a massive data center campus.

The President is set to sign an executive order directing the federal government to list coal as a critical mineral and force some coal-fired power plants that had faced closure to keep generating electricity. The Trump administration is expected to couch the directive as part of an effort to ramp up electricity production as demand from data centers surges.

A Reuters survey of 13 major U.S. electric utility earnings transcripts found nearly half have received inquiries from data center companies for volumes of power that would exceed their peak demand or existing generation capacity - that's everything they supply to homes and businesses – a metric that reflects the sheer size of oncoming data center needs.

Host Rich Miller speaks with Apolo CEO Bill Kleyman about his mantra of "power and bravery" as the key to innovation and building the data center industry of the future.