Google’s electricity consumption from data centers was up 27% from the year before. It’s doubled since 2020, reaching over 30 terawatt-hours. That’s nearly the annual electricity consumption from the entire country of Ireland.

Google has taken a major step toward the future of clean energy by partnering with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), an MIT spin-out working to build one of the world’s first commercial fusion reactors.

Accenture says AI’s carbon surge can be avoided—but as Big Tech races to build ever-larger data centers, the question is whether anyone’s really trying.

President Donald Trumpjoined executives from some of the largest U.S. tech and energy companies for a summit in Pittsburgh on Tuesday as the administration prepares more measures to power the U.S. expansion of artificial intelligence.

GM and Redwood are repurposing EV batteries into energy storage to help power AI data centers and boost US grid resilience.