The Rise of AI Reasoning Models Comes With a Big Energy Tradeoff December 5, 2025 By Rachel Metz and Dina Bass Nearly all leading artificial intelligence developers are focused on building AI models that mimic the way humans reason, but new...
Surge in Water Demand Could Put Ohio Farmers and Industry on Collision Course November 25, 2025 By Alan Miller/The Reporting Project Deep inside a report on the future of water in central Ohio is this warning: Industrial demands for water will...
US Faces Winter Blackout Risks From Data Centers’ Power Needs November 19, 2025 By Naureen S. Malik Rising electricity demand from data centers is raising the risk of blackouts across a wide swath of the US during...
Google Backs Gas Power Plant With Carbon Capture for Midwest Data Centers October 23, 2025 By Laila Kearney Google has entered into the first corporate agreement to buy electricity from a U.S. power plant using carbon capture and...
Meta Building New Gigawatt-Sized Data Center in Texas October 17, 2025 By Kurt Wagner Meta Platforms Inc. is building a new gigawatt-sized data center in Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest...
Rural Texas Communities Weigh Pros and Cons of Data Centers October 6, 2025 By Jayme Lozano-Carver, The Texas Tribune Kendra Kay loved growing up in the quiet of West Texas. She enjoyed the peacefulness brought in by the open...
Grad Students are Developing a Way to Cool Texas Data Centers Without Water September 29, 2025 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Sai Abhideep Pundla has been awake since 3 a.m. After a red-eye flight from Las Vegas, where he briefed data...
AI Boom Fuels 11% Rise in Top Japan Insurer’s Project Loans September 19, 2025 By Taiga Uranaka and Nao Sano Nippon Life Insurance Co. sees its overseas project finance lending climbing 11% to a record high this year due to...
Department of Energy Launches Effort to Speed Power Grid Projects for AI September 19, 2025 By Timothy Gardner The Trump administration on Thursday launched an effort to speed development of power plants and transmission lines as artificial intelligence...
Markets/Coverages: Everest Introduces EverBuild for Evolving Construction Risks September 8, 2025 Everest Insurance, the insurance division of Everest Group, recently announced the launch of EverBuild, an enhanced Builder’s Risk coverage form....