By Shane Snider | Senior News Writer, Data Center Knowledge Published: August 28, 2026 Executive Overview President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive order declaring a national emergency over the United States bulk power system. The directive empowers the Department of Energy (DOE) to clamp down on foreign-produced electrical infrastructure components and enforce rigorous…
Executive Overview In an era where social media platforms continually fight for the fleeting attention of global audiences, Instagram is doubling down on its foundational roots: community engagement. In a significant product update designed to foster deeper creator partnerships, Instagram has officially rolled out a feature that allows users to showcase posts they are tagged…
Executive Overview For years, the public conversation surrounding the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom has been overwhelmingly focused on generation. Energy pundits, utility executives, and policymakers have fixated on a singular, looming question: Where will the electrons come from? The proposed solutions have followed a predictable, carbon-heavy or capital-intensive trajectory—more natural gas turbines, renewed nuclear energy…
Executive Overview The race to deploy artificial intelligence at scale has collided head-first with the harsh reality of grid capacity limits. Across the United States, traditional electrical grids are buckling under the exponential power demands of hyper-scale artificial intelligence data centers. In regions like Texas, navigating the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) interconnection queue…
EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW The PJM Interconnection, the largest regional transmission organization (RTO) in the United States, is confronting an unprecedented structural and governance crisis. Following a capacity auction that left the grid operator trailing far behind its target reserves, PJM is racing to manage an exponential surge in power demand driven largely by the artificial intelligence…
By Shane Snider Senior News Writer, Data Center Knowledge Executive Overview The explosive global expansion of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and localized manufacturing is colliding with the physical realities of the American electrical grid. Across the United States, a systemic timing mismatch has emerged: data center developers can request gigawatts of electrical capacity in a…
By Shane Snider Senior News Writer, Data Center Knowledge August 28, 2026 Executive Overview In a sweeping move that bridges national security and critical digital infrastructure, President Donald Trump has declared a formal national emergency concerning the United States bulk power system. The executive directive grants the Department of Energy (DOE) unprecedented regulatory authority to…
Executive Overview The U.S. power grid is experiencing a historic collision between a relentless wave of industrial electrification and a shrinking reserve of conventional power generation. Nowhere is this tension more apparent than within the footprint of PJM Interconnection, the massive regional transmission organization (RTO) coordinating the movement of wholesale electricity across 13 states and…
Executive Overview As the global appetite for digital infrastructure surges on the back of the artificial intelligence boom, cloud expansion, and ubiquitous data processing, the modern data center has found itself at the center of a profound socio-economic and technical controversy. Long celebrated as the engines of the digital economy, these massive computing facilities are…
Executive Overview The rapid, tech-driven expansion of data centers is fundamentally reshaping electricity demand across North America, ending more than a decade of flat load growth. At the center of this transformation is PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization (RTO) managing the bulk power grid for all or parts of 13 states and the District…
