Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
News - Business Operations, Zachary Skidmore, DatacenterDynamics
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Idaho National Laboratory, Nvidia, AWS launch Prometheus project under Genesis Mission
Seeks to expedite advanced nuclear development through AI
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DOE selects Amentum, DC Blox to develop behind-the-meter AI data center at Savannah River site in South Carolina
Companies will now enter negotiations for a phased lease of site
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New Mexico regulators reject natural gas pipeline for Oracle's 2.5GW Project Jupiter data center
Pipeline was expected to feed fuel cells on the site
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Dominion Energy appoints new chief AI and digital officer
John Russell steps into the role
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Agentic grid-planning platform Piq raises $5m in seed funding
Round led by Active Impact Investments
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Off-grid data center proposed for Letcher County, Kentucky - report
Potential site located at the Gateway Business Park
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Elon Musk quietly acquires mobile gas generation firm APR Energy - report
Deal could be worth up to $1bn
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IDF, Oaktree to invest $1.7bn to support Bloom Energy's fuel cell deployments across Nebius data centers in US
Bloom and Nebius inked an offtake agreement in May
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UK oil and gas firm plots 200MW gas powered offshore data center in North Sea
Plan at very early stages
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Blackstone invests $5.34bn in Williams' behind-the-meter natural gas power projects for the data center sector
Projects have a combined capacity of 2.6GW
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Nvidia-backed Emerald AI seeking to raise a further $100m in funding - report
Could see the company valued at more than $1bn
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Google's former utility origination lead joins NRG Energy
Moves on after six years at the hyperscaler
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New York becomes first US state to impose data center moratorium
Imposes a one-year moratorium on data centers with a capacity of 50MW or more
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Mara acquires 1,200-acre Texas site from HIF USA for up to 2GW data center campus
Construction expected to start this year in partnership with Starwood
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EQT acquires energy and data center developer Copia Power from Carlyle
Adds to growing list of data center investments
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Google Cloud names Hussein Shel to lead oil & gas unit
Moves over from AWS
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European fusion company Proxima raises €411m with backing from Google
Latest fusion company to secure backing from the tech giant
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New Jersey lawmakers pass bill to establish large load data center tariff
Will now head to the governor for final approval
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National Grid Ventures invests $1.75bn in Joulent for construction of gas plant powering 2GW Microsoft data center in Texas
Joulent is a portfolio company of Engine No. 1
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Brookfield expands partnership with Bloom Energy to support fuel cell deployment across AI data centers
Expands investment to $25bn
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Nixxy and Tachyon 9 plan up to 1GW data center campus in North Dakota
First 120–150MW of capacity is targeted for the second quarter of 2027
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US lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to shield ratepayers from data center energy costs
Would target data centers with a capacity of 100MW or more
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Microsoft plans 2GW data center campus in Pecos, Texas
Chevron signed on for energy supply deal