The Next AI Data Center Will Be Approved for What It Can Switch Off

Google, Nvidia and an 18-partner alliance want data centers paid for verifiable flexibility, Spain wants 80 percent hourly-matched renewables, and Kakao just cut cooling costs 23 percent with software alone. Here is how the grid connection turns into a negotiation about curtailment, and the two numbers to ask any AI campus for.

The House Voted 417 to 3 to Send AI Data Centers the Grid Bill. Anthropic Is Already Paying It.

In four days, a near-unanimous House vote, a governor and the Scottish government all asked the same question: who pays for the wires? Here is how that question ends up in the price of compute.