A new way to power data centers: pair clean energy and peaker plants

Not only the operators of data centres demand energy quantities that exceed the consumption of entire cities. Who should be awarded the contract if there is not enough electricity for everyone in the foreseeable future?

A new way to power data centers: pair clean energy and peaker plants

It’s become the animating question in the U.S. electricity industry: How can power-hungry data centers get the energy they need? The obvious answers have proven insufficient. Solar and wind power projects face yearslong wait times to interconnect to constrained grids. Moves to siphon off existing nuclear power to…

Chevron Advances Plans to Develop US Data Centers With Power Generation - Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events

(Reuters) – Chevron is advancing plans to tap into data center power demand, with the oil major recently entering the permitting and engineering phases for multiple U.S. sites to develop the centers and the electricity to supply them, a company executive told Reuters this week. Energy use for U.S. data centers, which are essentially giant ...