New York Blackout 2003: Historic power outage affecting a large part of the north eastern United States and Canada. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images) The Blizzard of 2026 swept across the ...

The U.S. power grid was built for a 20th-century economy and cannot deliver what the AI boom requires. A handful of companies ...

America’s electric grid is buckling under extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and an AI build-out that is quietly rewriting U.S. power demand—and General Motors wants to turn that crisis into a ...

America’s power grid is aging into obsolescence. Much of the infrastructure that keeps the lights on today was built in the 1960s and 1970s, long before the digital and electrified demands of the 21st ...

Soaring power bills are threatening to claim their biggest victim yet — the nation’s largest electric grid operator. Federal officials have suggested breaking up PJM Interconnection LLC, which runs ...

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column. Angst over ...

America’s aging electric grid is struggling to meet modern demands—especially amid the AI boom. Overhauling it will be no small feat. Reading time 6 minutes Most of America’s power grid infrastructure ...

Wed, June 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM UTC Dan Dreyfus, founder of Borneite Capital, warned on the All-In Podcast that America's grid is in such poor shape that blackouts, when power is completely lost, and ...

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?