This article was originally published on ARPU. View the original post here. Yesterday, Meta signed its fourth major solar energy deal this year, securing 650 megawatts across projects in Kansas and ...

When you stream a movie, back up a photo or ask ChatGPT a question, somewhere a data center is working hard—and getting hot. Cooling those facilities already consumes a huge share of their electricity ...

American solar farms are setting records while AI data centers consume power at a pace that could outstrip every new megawatt coming online by 2027. Something has to give, and whoever fills the gap ...

F orty-seven years ago U.S. President Jimmy Carter stood grinning in front of a set of 32 bulky solar panels. It was 1979, and the oil crisis had sent fuel costs skyrocketing. Car ...

President Trump has repeatedly criticized solar and wind, most recently in at the U.N. General Assembly, calling them “a joke” and the “scam of the century.” Congressional Republicans passed the One ...

In 2025 — for the first year ever — solar arrays provided more electricity to Texas’ main power grid than coal-fired power plants. Solar farms contributed 67,800 gigawatt-hours of electricity from ...

Solar, wind, and battery storage are projected to add 62% more generating capacity in 2026 than in 2025, assuring that those sources provide virtually all net new generating capacity this year, ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. U.S. electricity demand, long stagnant, is now soaring due to the explosive rise of ...

Apparently, a 19-megawatt (MW) solar farm and a 167-MW AI data center are “substantially the same” – at least according to the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Trump ...

First Solar posted record Q1 revenue of $1.04 billion but trades down 21% as markets price in the 2030 Section 45X credit phase-out. US data center power demand nearly doubles to 66 GW by 2027 as AI ...