Power

Permian gas powers dedicated data center as Chevron sells electrons in Texas

Permian gas powers dedicated data center as Chevron sells electrons in Texas

Melissa Palmer
January 8, 2026

Chevron plans a 2.5 GW behind-the-meter natural-gas power plant in the Permian, expandable to 5 GW, dedicated to a single...

Vantage Taps Liberty Energy To Pre-Build 1 GW Of Private Power For AI Data Centers

Vantage Taps Liberty Energy To Pre-Build 1 GW Of Private Power For AI Data Centers

Melissa Palmer
January 7, 2026

Vantage Data Centers and Liberty Energy’s Liberty Power Innovations unit announced a strategic partnership to develop and operate up to...

Deep Dive: Meta Socrates South Data Center

Deep Dive: Meta Socrates South Data Center

Melissa Palmer
January 7, 2026

Socrates South is a 200 MW natural-gas power plant built for one purpose: to power a Meta-affiliated data center without touching...

Pennsylvania Township deal steers 400 MW data center to grid power

Pennsylvania Township deal steers 400 MW data center to grid power

Melissa Palmer
January 2, 2026

Clifton Township is close to settling with the Project Gold developer, clearing the way for a massive data center campus...

AI data center dream in Westfield, Massachusetts quietly collapses over power, permits

AI data center dream in Westfield, Massachusetts quietly collapses over power, permits

Melissa Palmer
January 2, 2026

Servistar pitched a 2.7 million square foot hyperscale data center in Westfield that would have pulled 4–5x the city’s total...

Massive rural data center strains grid, tests Leon County oversight

Massive rural data center strains grid, tests Leon County oversight

Melissa Palmer
December 26, 2025

Belltown Power plans a massive 1,500 MW data center in rural Leon County, Texas, a clear signal of hyperscale-style power...

Gas-backed power strategy reshapes North Dakota data center Planning

Gas-backed power strategy reshapes North Dakota data center Planning

Melissa Palmer
December 26, 2025

The core signal is that Basin Electric and NextEra are exploring a large natural gas plant in North Dakota to...

AI data center boom shifts grid upgrade costs onto regular customers says senators

AI data center boom shifts grid upgrade costs onto regular customers says senators

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

US senators are calling out major AI and cloud vendors for driving city-scale power demand while letting residential and small...

Georgia Data center power deal shifts long‑term costs and risks onto customers

Georgia Data center power deal shifts long‑term costs and risks onto customers

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

Georgia’s PSC just approved a $16 billion, ~10 GW grid expansion largely to serve data centers, locking in a huge...

Michigan Regulators approve conditional fast-track power deal for massive AI data center

Michigan Regulators approve conditional fast-track power deal for massive AI data center

Melissa Palmer
December 22, 2025

Michigan regulators just greenlit fast-track power contracts for an OpenAI/Oracle-linked data center that will pull 1.4 GW, forcing DTE to...

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