On the Monday, March 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing the U.S. power grid in new ways. How can we ensure its reliability?

Cuba is slowly restoring power to 10 million people after its national electrical grid collapsed March 16, a blackout caused by an obsolete power system coupled to an oil blockade imposed by President ...

The impending growth of datacentre rack power draw to 1MW within two years will bring a step change in energy use and potential to waste massive amounts of heat. This means datacentre operators must ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

When you’re setting out to build a gaming PC, the most consequential decision you’re going to make is choosing the best graphics card for your build. There are a lot of options out there, but picking ...

Whether you’ve been playing PC games for years or you’re building your first gaming PC, picking the right graphics card is probably one of the most consequential choices. It doesn’t help that now ...

Cuba’s blackout problem has worsened in the month since the US cut off oil shipments to the island. Its grid was fragile even before a critical transmission line failure in early December temporarily ...

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Massive data centers are pushing energy demand higher. Some people claim that AI will be a net benefit for the grid. The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so ...

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Instagram announced on Thursday that it will finally allow users to rearrange their grid and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without having the content appear in users’ ...