Georgia Environmental Regulators say a company installing natural gas-based electrical generation for a Newton County data center has likely violated state air quality rules.

The temperature is climbing, and so are people's utility bills. Rising electricity prices and hotter-than-usual weather could make it especially costly to stay cool this summer.

Georgia’s growing electricity demand is driving another major natural gas expansion, with Oglethorpe Power breaking ground Thursday on a $3.3 billion natural gas power plant in Monroe County.

Cheap gasoline, yes. Drill, baby, drill? Not so much. And electricity bills are going up, not down.

Attracted by lots of electricity and few people, out-of-state land speculators have secured zoning for a 900 MW data center in Twiggs County in Middle Georgia. 

Subway networks, phone lines, traffic lights, ATM machines and more were knocked offline in the two countries and parts of France around midday Monday.

A panel of Georgia Power representatives testified for eight hours at Tuesday’s Public Service Commission hearing about its controversial roadmap for meeting large-scale, data center-driven energy demands over the next decade.

President Trump said he plans to put 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada in an escalation of recent trade tensions between the countries.

The severing of electricity ties to Russia is rich in geopolitical significance. Work on it sped up after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.

Georgia's largest provider of electricity says retiring coal will have to wait due to massive energy needs from new manufacturing but mainly from internet data centers.

Critics warn of more fossil fuel use and surging customer costs.

Opponents of a proposal by Georgia Power to add more biomass to the utility’s electrical generating portfolio argued Thursday the plan is both unreliable and too expensive. Georgia Power is seeking approval from the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to buy about 80 megawatts of electricity from three plants in South Georgia that burn wood chips from waste generated by logging operations.

The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.

Citing climate change, federal land managers are moving to end new leasing for coal in the country's top producing region.

Some say that topdown solutions for Georgia’s coal ash ponds ignore depths of community health woes and the reality of how water flows.