Reuters

Stressed US grid forcing data centers to get more flexible

NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. technology industry is being pushed to shrink its power use in times of high demand, amid growing public concern that Big Tech's massive electricity needs for ...
Houston Chronicle

Texas’ grid faces a new challenge. We need a new solution. | Opinion

Texas is in the middle of the largest grid expansion in its history. Billions are already committed to new 765-kV transmission corridors that will reshape how electricity moves across the state. It ...
The New York Times

Why tech giants are ditching the power grid

In a few short years, the technology industry has transformed places like central Ohio, where farmland is giving way to data centers and computer chip factories. In a few short years, the technology ...
InfoWorld

JDK 26: The new features in Java 26

JDK 26 moves to general production availability. This short-term release is backed by six months of Premier-level support. Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, the latest standard Java release from Oracle, ...
Wall Street Journal

The Electric Grid Needs Huge Upgrades. No One Knows Who Will Pay for Them.

The U.S. power industry is embarking on an AI-driven expansion of the electric grid, a build-out that promises to be one of the most expensive since World War II. Some of the costs are set to be ...
IEEE

Grid Convolution for 3D Human Pose Estimation

Abstract: 3D human pose estimation from 2D keypoint observation has been used in many human-centered computer vision applications. In this work, we tackle the task by formulating a novel grid ...
The Conversation

Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies? All of this plays out on ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
Business Wire

CTC Global Launches GridVista System and Strategic Partnership with Google Cloud and Tapestry to Transform Grid Intelligence

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CTC Global, the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of high-capacity advanced conductors, today announced the launch of the GridVista System. The GridVista ...
Wall Street Journal

America’s Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem—Too Many Data Centers

America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...
Forbes

Artificial Intelligence Hits The Grid As Utilities Race To Keep Up

Duke Energy didn’t turn to artificial intelligence to chase the latest tech trend. It shifted to AI because every storm season now tests grid resilience. In 2024, the utility’s investment arm backed ...