With data centers buying up electricity, residential customers are digging deep to make payments. “The challenge,” said a source, “is when the demand for the product increases really fast, the

Building the infrastructure for generative AI like Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot could spark local fights for energy.

Behind your ChatGPT and Gemini queries, there's a land grab happening to keep up the fevered pace of gen AI's growth. The consequences are significant.

DALLAS. TX (North Dakota Monitor) – Applied Digital, the company operating data centers near Ellendale and Jamestown, on Monday announced plans to build a $3 billion data center at Harwood, north of Fargo. Applied Digital plans to break ground in September on what it calls Polaris Forge 2, a 280-megawatt artificial intelligence computing center.

Applied currently operates a HPC data center campus in North Dakota – now known as Polaris Forge 1 – in Ellendale, some 140 miles southwest of the new site. Built to support 400MW of critical IT load, with potential to expand to more than 1GW, Polaris Forge 01’s design features a closed-loop, waterless, direct-to-chip cooling system.

New York’s growing demand for electricity—driven largely by AI data centers—is putting clean energy mandates and affordability at risk, according to the Times Union. Facilities powering AI models like ChatGPT are consuming massive energy but creating few jobs.

China dominates LFP battery production. Nano One could help change this equation in North America by making lithium batteries last longer.

If there’s one thing the White House, Wall Street and Silicon Valley can agree on, it’s that artificial intelligence is a top priority.

An artificial intelligence data center builder is announcing a planned expansion of their footprint in North Dakota with what it calls a new ‘AI Factory’ near Harwood

Natural gas stocks are a great way to play the surge in electricity demand from data centers. The top energy stocks supplying, storing and moving natural gas pay solid and healthy dividends. Despite the huge market run since April,

As Rusty Foster, author of the widely read media blog Today in Tabs, puts it: "our economy might just be three AI data centers in a trench coat."

China is an important market for Nvidia, generating $17.1 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue, or 13.1% of total revenue. However, Nvidia and AMD ( AMD) recently agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of Chinese revenue as part of a deal to secure export licenses to China.