Mark Chediak

SB Energy, the SoftBank Group Corp.-backed energy company that’s now building data centers, is preparing to start formally marketing its initial public offering to investors once US regulators are finished reviewing the company’s IPO filing, people familiar with the plan said.

Unfreezing some renewable projects may have only a modest impact on US clean-power growth.

Hurricane Isaias barreled into the Florida Panhandle Friday night with damaging winds and a storm surge that threatened to inundate beachfront communities.

It takes a lot of water to generate the power consumed by server farms.

Data center developers have started touting new technologies that slash the amount of water needed to cool hot-running servers in drought-stressed places like Arizona. Those efforts, though, are not addressing the vast majority of the water consumed by the AI buildout.

New analysis highlights the sector’s huge indirect consumption through electricity generation.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger won’t support NextEra Energy Inc.’s $67 billion takeover of Dominion Energy Inc. without a six-year freeze on residential power rates and a tripling of bill credits.

Budderfly Inc. plans to make $500 million available to small- and mid-sized US cities to upgrade aging facilities with solar panels, batteries and more efficient heating and cooling heating systems.

A startup that developed a device designed to make solar panels more efficient raised $32 million from investors, including former SunPower Corp. Chief Executive Officer Tom Werner, to expand manufacturing.

After a crackdown on wind projects, the White House is now also letting a select few through to pressure Democrats into supporting a sweeping permitting bill.