Items Tagged with 'Power infrastructure'

Financing is secured and construction is underway, but power contracts behind Michigan's massive Oracle data center are now before the Michigan Court of Appeals.

State lawmakers vote to pause construction of large data centers even as ISO New England reports only modest pipeline activity, sharpening questions over who pays for future grid impacts.

Tech giant's Hyperion campus in Richland Parish is driving one of the largest utility expansions in state history.

Commentary: It's ironic that the one thing that might be able to help manage the massive need for electrical design created by $1 trillion in data center investment to power artificial intelligence is... artificial intelligence-assisted electrical design. 

This 1954 image depicts the excavation of an 8,000-ft-long channel to carry water downstream from the Roanoke Rapids Dam powerhouse in North Carolina.

After sitting dormant for more than a decade, a $1B gas-fired power plant near Moundsville, W.Va., is moving forward again.

As data center demand surges, grid access—not land—is deciding which projects move forward, forcing builders to rethink power infrastructure, costs and schedules before construction begins. 

The purchase, expected to complete in the first quarter of 2026, would form an expanded WSP with 27,000 global professionals and $7.2 billion in 2025 net revenue on a pro forma basis.

Partnerships will be key to meeting upcoming challenges, said panelists at Infraday Northwest conference.

State approval clears construction to start later this year, with the line energized in phases through 2029.