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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Surging Data Center Growth to Help Lower Energy Costs for PG&E Customers
Every 1,000 MW (or 1 GW) of New Electric Demand from Data Centers Could Decrease Monthly Electric Bills by 1-2% SAN JOSE, Calif., May 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is seeing a huge jump in the amount of electricity needed for new data centers. These centers, which power things like cloud storage and artificial intelligence (AI), are expected to need about 8.7 gigawatts (GW) of electricity over the next 10 years. That's a big increase from the 5.5 GW PG&E reported at the end of 2024. To give an idea of how much power that is—just 1 GW can power around 750,000 homes at the same time. PG&E is also proud to be the host utility for this week's DTECH Data Centers & AI Conference in San Jose. The event brings together leaders from tech, government, and energy to talk about meeting the growing power needs of AI and data centers. PG&E leaders will speak on topics like: How AI is changing energy use How to speed up power delivery to data centers How to work better with developers and communities Mike Medeiros, Vice President, South Bay Delivery, PG&E, participates in the opening keynote today with several other utility executives to discuss load growth, reliability, and equitable data center expansion. "What differentiates the opportunity for data centers in California is a diversified set of customers and projects, excess clean power supply, and a regulatory approach which ensures that our existing residential customers will save money," Medeiros said. Of the 8.7 GW, PG&E is working on 18 new data center projects totaling approximately 1.4 GW that are in the final engineering phase (the last step before project construction starts) and projected to begin operations between 2026 and 2030. Most of these are in Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area, but some are also in the Central Valley and Sacramento. Growth in data center demand is good news for all PG&E customers. PG&E estimates for every 1,000 MW (or 1 GW) of new electric demand from data centers it serves, PG&E electric customers may save between 1-2% on their monthly bill in the long term, while serving those customers with some of the cleanest electricity in the United States. New energy demand from data centers allows PG&E to utilize more of its existing power infrastructure. By spreading the costs over more units of energy, each customer's dollar can go further. Looking Ahead: More Projects Across California After a successful study of data center needs in Silicon Valley last year, PG&E is now doing a follow-up study across its entire service area—70,000 square miles of Northern and Central California. In addition to the current 8.7 GW in PG&E's data center project pipeline noted in its first quarter 2025 earnings report, PG&E received 21 new data center project applications through its follow-up cluster study (launched in April 2025) totaling approximately 4.1 GW of additional power demand. PG&E is actively working with these customers through the end of the year to scope and finalize their requests. By grouping applications and projects together, rather than individually, PG&E can plan better, save money, and connect customers faster. PG&E is also working with real estate developer Westbank on a new net-zero community in downtown San Jose. Construction has started on infrastructure upgrades, and Westbank is now looking for data center partners to join the project. To learn more about PG&E's plans for the future, including how it is accelerating connecting data centers and other large loads, visit About PG&EPacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than sixteen million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit and View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Biggest California utility sees more than 40% jump in data center interest, executive says
By Laila Kearney (Reuters) -PG&E, California's largest electric utility, has seen a jump of more than 40% this year in requests for power supplies from data center developers across the northern part of the state, an executive with the company told Reuters on Tuesday. California's Silicon Valley is one of the world's largest and oldest data center markets, but analysts have widely said that pricey land and costly electricity will limit the state's ability to capitalize on the current wave of demand for artificial intelligence data centers, which is concentrated in the middle of the country. PG&E, however, said it is seeing signs that the state still has room to run. Last month, PG&E, which delivers power and natural gas to about 16 million people in northern and central California, including Silicon Valley, launched a process for data center developers interested in connecting to the utility's system. The so-called cluster study yielded 4.1 gigawatts of interest, on top of the 8.7 gigawatts announced during the company's most recent earnings call in late April, said Mike Medeiros, PG&E's vice president of South Bay Delivery. Not only did the pipeline of prospective data centers being built within PG&E grow, but the size of the projects has also jumped since the previous year's cluster study, Medeiros said. Last year, the typical data center wanting to power up through PG&E had 50 to 100 megawatts in capacity. Current proposals are for projects of 500 megawatts to as much as 1,000 megawatts. "We're seeing quite a change in what customers are looking for, and some of that might be based on land availability or just scale and the efficiencies of building bigger," Medeiros said. Unlike earlier data centers, those for AI are used primarily for training the large language models, like ChatGPT, and can be further away from city centers. While California's older data centers are in Silicon Valley in the western part of the state, many of the new proposed developments are inland, including in Contra Costa County and the Fresno area. Not all of the data centers making inquiries are expected to ultimately connect to PG&E. Some of the top challenges in data center expansion for the utility include meeting the tight timelines by developers and operators and backlogs in the equipment needed to build out the grid. Sign in to access your portfolio
CBC
27-04-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Is the race narrowing in Poilievre's own riding? Here's what residents think
Social Sharing As reports emerge of a tightening race in Pierre Poilievre's Ottawa-area riding, Liberal and Conservative supporters are confident of their respective candidate's chances of winning. Supporters of the Liberals' Bruce Fanjoy believe they have a chance of unseating the Conservative leader in Carleton, which Poilievre has held since 2004. Meanwhile, Poilievre's supporters say they're confident he'll keep the seat. Still, both The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star reported last week the Conservatives were deploying a team of staffers to the riding to help Poilievre win a race some Ontario Progressive Conservative Party insiders have said could be closer than expected. "I would like to see Pierre Poilievre be gone from politics," said Bob Neske, who lives with his wife June in a quiet part of west Ottawa. "Bruce is a super nice guy ... We've been out canvassing almost every single day since the beginning." The retired military couple have thrown their support behind Fanjoy, who worked in business and marketing before stepping back to be a parent and volunteer. June Neske said the two of them "have historically voted Conservative" but neither could support Poilievre. Bob Neske said his opinion of Poilievre started to change in 2022 when the MP showed support for the convoy protest, which saw thousands of people descend on Ottawa with large trucks, protesting pandemic mandates and other government policies. He added he wouldn't be supporting the Liberals if former prime minister Justin Trudeau was still leader. 'I don't know if it's that close' One Conservative source told CBC News the party is confident Poilievre will take the seat, as he has for the past seven elections. For Mike Medeiros, who runs a mushroom farm in the riding and is voting Conservative, reports of a tightening race don't worry him. "I don't know if it's that close, maybe it is. I think what's happening too is we've got 91 candidates in our riding," Medeiros said, referring to the high number of protest candidates running in Carleton. Medeiros said affordability is top of mind for him this election, citing the high taxes he's had to pay for his farm. "I think the conservative voters will definitely come out and support their candidate who they've supported for the past 20 years," he told CBC. "Throughout the summer you'll see [Poilievre] in the riding. He'll pop in and buy some mushrooms once in a while ... he's definitely a great supporter of our local community." Medeiros added he hasn't yet run into Fanjoy. Huge turnout in advance voting The riding's candidates also include the NDP's Beth Prokaska, a retired music teacher, and the Green Party's Mark Watson, who's founded several businesses. Data released by Elections Canada shows nearly 44,000 votes were cast in Carleton during advanced polls, more than 40 per cent of the voters on the agency's list. While denying there's any concerns in the riding, the Conservatives added a rally in Carleton to his schedule for Sunday night. CBC asked for a comment from the Conservative leader but did not hear back by deadline. Meanwhile, Fanjoy says the race is winnable. "People will discover on election night that this is going to be a very close race," he said. "That's the message that we're telling people."
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
New Bedford man wins $1 million lottery prize
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — A New Bedford man won a $1 million prize playing the state's '$4,000,000 Gold 50X' $5 instant ticket game. The Massachusetts State Lottery said Philip Medeiros chose a one-time payment of $650,000 before taxes. Medeiros told lottery officials he plans to use his winnings to buy a new car and go on vacation. ALSO READ: Mega Millions ticket price rising to $5 The lottery said Medeiros bought the winning ticket at the Cumberland Farms on Ashley Boulevard. The store will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the ticket. Download the and apps to get breaking news and weather alerts. Watch or with the new . Follow us on social media: Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Boston Globe
11-04-2025
- Boston Globe
Prosecutors toss major trafficking case after New Bedford police accused of misconduct with informant
From left, Steven Ortiz, Jason DaRosa, Tommy Ortiz, and Katherine Espinal-Paredes left the courtroom after the case was dismissed. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff The misconduct cited in the dismissal was first exposed in While she was secretly seeing Lucas, Medeiros alleges, the detective was using information gleaned from her – without her knowledge – to build a drug trafficking case against Ortiz, her fiance. Advertisement In court Friday morning, Bristol County prosecutor Patrick Driscoll told Bristol County Judge Renee P. Dupuis he couldn't 'in good faith go forward' with the case because of the involvement of Medeiros and Lucas. 'Their involvement in the case has tainted the case, they can't be cut out, and it taints the entire investigation and therefore dismissal is the appropriate remedy,' Driscoll said. Bristol County prosecutor Patrick Driscoll. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Driscoll declined to speak with the Globe following the hearing, and refused to answer several questions as he exited the courthouse. Advertisement The New Bedford Police Department's misuse of informants is the focus of a recent Globe Spotlight series, The state's about-face Friday came after Boston attorney Rosemary Scapicchio, who represented Ortiz, told Dupuis she was prepared to prove extensive misconduct by New Bedford Police -- including that one detective had perjured himself in a previous hearing. 'We were ready to make our case, and we would've made a very strong case, in my opinion, showing the rampant misconduct in that police department,' Scapicchio told the Globe following the hearing. 'The police officers were lying, and they knew we were going to expose their lies. And ultimately the Commonwealth, I think, made a decision that they couldn't go forward based on what had happened.' The investigation into Ortiz, dubbed 'Operation High Stakes,' initially seemed like a big score for local authorities. Spanning a year and involving agents from at least five local, state, and federal agencies, the case came to a dramatic conclusion in June 2017, when Ortiz was arrested. In all, authorities arrested 21 people as part of the probe, and seized about a pound of heroin and fentanyl. At the time, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III called it 'another example of law enforcement agencies working together to investigate drug dealing activity that fuels 'the opiate epidemic.'' But cracks in the case began to emerge several years later, when Medeiros – examining court records – came to believe that she was the confidential informant at the heart of the case. Advertisement In 2022, she contacted the Globe, which detailed her allegations in A New Bedford Police internal affairs investigation – prompted by the Globe's reporting – later confirmed the crux of Medeiros's story: That for years, she'd maintained a sexual relationship with Lucas – even as the detective was using her as a confidential informant. Friday's dismissal marks the second Bristol County drug trafficking case to fall as a result of Lucas's improper relationship with Medeiros. Last June, after the Globe story about the Lucas-Medeiros relationship, charges of heroin dealing against Miguel Martinez of New Bedford were dropped after the judge in the case excoriated Lucas for 'gross misconduct.' In that case, Medeiros testified that she'd been instructed by Lucas and another New Bedford detective, Kevin Barbosa, to plant drugs and cash on Martinez. '[Lucas's] disregard for police department policy regarding informants lacked the very integrity required for the search warrant process to maintain legitimacy,' Judge Renee Dupuis wrote in her decision. Judge Renee P. Dupuis. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff But until Friday, prosecutors had been undeterred in their pursuit of Ortiz. In the nearly eight years since his arrest, authorities have fended off numerous legal challenges aimed at undermining the investigation. Dugan Arnett can be reached at
