Energy Department

Power for AI data centers from gas turbines or green energy? 18 facts are compiled to instruct and guide the new strategy for U.S. energy.

For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as much and building projects faster.

Using AI to identify "mission-critical" jobs? Spotting dead people on the Social Security rolls? There's an urgent role for automation and AI in government -- but the what DOGE appears to be doing doesn't add up.

Nuclear energy has been receiving a lot of positive attention given the immense benefits and potential to resolve our world's energy infrastructure challenges. With growing global energy needs, especially related to data centers to fuel the AI boom, we are facing unprecedented demand.

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency appear to have wide-reaching plans to remake the government with AI. Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer who is now the head of the Technology Transformation Services, a federal IT division, invoked an "AI-first strategy" at a recent staff meeting.

Donald Trump and AI executives alike have sounded the alarm about a looming AI-driven energy shortage. Both benefit from the concern.

Department of Government Efficiency workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.

The US risks forfeiting a global competition to dominate artificial intelligence if it doesn't build more reliable, always-on electricity to supply the industry, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Interior Department warned Thursday.