The rapid development and widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is posing new challenges for electricity consumption. This is because most AI systems rely on data centers, facilities hosting several computing servers that store and process large amounts of data.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last month secured a Department of Energy study examining how AI-driven data centers are driving up electricity costs and straining grid reliability. The fact that Congress is pressing for such a review for consumers ...

Professor Singisetti at the University at Buffalo discusses the commercialisation path for Gallium Oxide in high-power electronics

Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging electricity usage of data centers that enable the training and deployment of the latest generative AI models.

As summer arrives, people are turning on air conditioners in most of the U.S. But if you’re like me, you always feel a little guilty about that. Past generations managed without air conditioning – do I really need it? And how bad is it to use all this ...

The daytime temperature in Kyiv, which has endured freezing temperatures for more than two weeks, was minus 12 degrees C (about 10 degrees F), with streets covered in ice and the rumble of generators heard throughout the capital.

In 2015 on a cold December afternoon, approximately 230,000 Ukrainians suddenly lost access to electrical power. In many countries around the world, grid outages aren’t an uncommon phenomenon, and the

In 2025 — for the first year ever — solar arrays provided more electricity to Texas’ main power grid than coal-fired power plants.

The New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line, commonly known as the Central Maine Power corridor, is now online and contributing to the New England power grid.