As an electricity crunch drives bills higher around the country, big tech companies building power-hungry data centers are increasingly offering to pay for more of the energy they consume, so everyday ...

Governor Gavin Newsom stood before global leaders in Brazil recently at COP30, the annual United Nations climate conference, and introduced himself to the world as the new face of U.S. climate ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom stood before global leaders in Brazil recently at COP30, the annual United Nations climate conference, and introduced himself to the world as the new face of U.S. climate ambition.

In February 2021, a winter storm swept across the U.S. and numbed Texas with record-breaking low temperatures. Just as heating demand skyrocketed, many natural gas plants and a handful of wind ...

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world. Andes Solar IV, one of the largest ...

Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of dollars this past year in data centers, which use enormous amounts of electricity. Planet Money's Keith Romer explains the connection to consumer power ...