As the data-center boom puts pressure on the grid, some companies say the answer isn’t just more power plants but software that dials down centers’ energy-guzzling ways when demand spikes.

Voltus, along with the Mission:data Coalition, filed a FERC complaint alleging that PJM utilities are withholding smart meter data in ways that block gigawatts of demand-response capacity

Three year deal will see Voltus supply capacity from energy assets to Google operations across PJM grid

A new deal between Google and Voltus will take advantage of flexibility on the grid.

Google has worked to make its own data centers flexible, but reasons it is often faster and more cost effective to pay other customers to shift their electricity usage, an executive told Utility Dive.

Voltus featured as Google's demand-response partner in a newly announced 3-year deal that could create up to 100 megawatts of capacity in PJM.

Voltus will procure up to 100 MW of distributed flexible capacity for data centers in PJM.

Today, Google and Voltus announced a three-year agreement to unlock up to 100 megawatts (MW) of new electricity capacity from flexible distributed energy resources in the PJM grid region, which serves 67 million people in the United States.

A new smart energy partnership between the UK's Octopus Energy and the US's Voltus is set to address the surge in electricity demand across US data centres

The deal will add residential assets to Voltus’s portfolio, expanding options for data centers in key markets.