Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...

When electricity demand is set to surge—say, from a new power-hungry data center—the default response from a utility is often to build a new (and expensive) power plant and other infrastructure. A new ...

This winter’s big freeze led Long Island’s electric grid to rely on two energy sources that were once considered dinosaurs: fuel oil and the region’s oldest power plants. During the period of the ...

WebMCP is a W3C Community Group standard that allows web pages to expose structured JavaScript tools to AI agents and assistive technologies via navigator.modelContext. Think of it as turning a ...

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. The Google Discover core update from February 2026 has ...

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W3C proposal backed by Google and Microsoft allows developers to expose client-side JavaScript tools to AI agents, enabling collaborative workflows between users and agents within the same web ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The five electric cooperatives that serve the Upstate are urging customers to reduce energy use to reduce the strain on the power grid and avoid temporary power ...

The coordinated attack on Poland's power grid in late December targeted multiple distributed energy resource (DER) sites across the country, including combined heat and power (CHP) facilities and wind ...

The Trump administration issued an emergency order Sunday night allowing Texas’ power grid operator to use backup generators from data centers and other facilities to prevent rotating outages over the ...

UPDATE (January 30 th, 2026): For a technical breakdown of the incident affecting a company in Poland’s energy sector, refer to this blogpost. In late 2025, Poland’s energy system faced what has been ...

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...