Data Center Requests for Power Soar, Dominion Reports

Utilities Soar On Surging Power Demand From Data Centers

They may look like Plain Jane utilities to you and me. But to the AI industry, they’re Helen of Troy: the faces that launched a thousand server racks.  In respective earnings reports on Thursday, utilities giants Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and American Electric Power (AEP) both reported a surge in power demand due to the massive and ongoing expansion of the energy-starved data centers fueling the artificial intelligence boom, following simila…

Data center requests for power soar, Dominion reports

Over the past year, the amount of electricity they’re asking Dominion to provide has jumped by 75%, reaching nearly 70,000 megawatts.