The US government asked the nation’s grid operators to make backup power available from facilities including data centers as a record-breaking winter storm threatens blackouts across the country.

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Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...