Larry Ellison's $7.5 billion Oracle stock-sale plan lasted one day in public view before he canceled it — a sequence only possible because of a decades-old SEC disclosure rule.

A 519-milliliter estimate and a 0.26-milliliter one both come from real research. The gap comes down to what each study counts, onsite cooling, power-plant water, or both, not who's lying.

Nvidia offered to bankroll smaller AI clouds' chip purchases in exchange for a slice of their revenue. Weeks later, its own employees flagged the antitrust risk.

One line on your utility statement pays for electricity that may never be generated. It is small, it is climbing, and it explains the grid better than kilowatt-hours do.

AI data centers are on track to use as much power as Japan by 2030. Here is why the chips draw so much electricity, how much water cooling takes, and what it means for your bill.

Household power rates are up sharply in data-center states like Ohio and Virginia. Here's the mechanism turning the AI boom into a line on your bill, and what actually moves the number.

With 67 million people's power on the line, PJM leaned on paid demand cuts and data-center curtailments to keep the lights on through the heat.

As a heat dome pushed demand toward a grid record, Washington ordered data centers off the public network and onto their own generators, freeing up power to keep home air conditioners running.