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Data Centers and the Grid: Key Insights from POWER’s Inaugural Data Center POWER eXchange Summit

Sonal Patel — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:59:27 +0000

POWER breaks down the top insights from Data Center POWER eXchange, its unique one-day summit curated by POWER’s editorial team and convened to examine the collision between accelerating data center load and tightening grid constraints. The rise of artificial intelligence is poised to create the fastest, largest, and most concentrated surge of electricity demand in […]

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How AI Is Breathing New Life into Aging Coal-Fired Power Assets

Aaron Larson — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:03:35 +0000

For years, some folks have considered coal-fired power plants relics of a bygone era, overshadowed by the rise of natural gas and renewables. Yet, in an unexpected twist, coal is finding its way back into the

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Power Play: Takeaways from Westinghouse, Google AI Partnership

Contributed Content — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:03:58 +0000

Westinghouse has partnered with Google Cloud to develop a custom AI-powered platform using specialized models from both Google and Westinghouse—itself a leader in AI for energy production—that helps optimize and accelerate reactor construction.

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POWER Interview: CyrusOne Expert on How AI Is Reshaping the Data Center–Utility Relationship

Sonal Patel — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:54:26 +0000

CyrusOne’s Jim Roche details how AI-driven workloads, high-density racks, and liquid cooling are transforming the data center–utility relationship. Only a decade ago, few in the power sector could have predicted that the digital economy’s engine—the data center—would become a central concern for utility planners, grid operators, and energy policymakers. For much of its history, data […]

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Unlock the Next Level of Energy Flexibility

Contributed Content — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:54:31 +0000

Flexibility has become a defining characteristic of the future of our energy system. As distributed energy resources surge, electric vehicles (EVs) proliferate, and demand patterns shift, the ability to manage demand in real time is as critical as our capacity to generate. But achieving this level of adaptability requires more than just upgraded infrastructure; it […]

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Frugal AI’s Energy Reckoning: Why Efficiency Isn’t Enough

Jeff Willert — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:19:43 +0000

The story of artificial intelligence (AI) is often told in the language of speed and efficiency. Every quarter brings claims of models that run faster and cost less. Yet behind the glossy benchmarks lies a more sobering truth: the appetite for AI is growing so quickly that even the most impressive efficiency gains cannot keep […]

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Power Quality in the AI Era: Solving for Subharmonics

Contributed Content — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:41:39 +0000

Data center operators are keenly aware that securing access to the grid is job number one on their to-do list. But the extraordinary demand placed on the grid by artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) has another concern rapidly ascending the list: power quality. While data centers running traditional workloads have largely solved for […]

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AI’s Growing Appetite: What the Grid Needs to Keep Up

Bryce Yonker — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:28:20 +0000

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t just transforming industries; it is also transforming the energy grid. Behind every AI breakthrough lies a massive surge in computing power, and with it, an unprecedented demand for reliable and affordable electricity. As the U.S. positions itself for continued technological leadership, meeting the energy needs of AI data […]

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Bridging the AI Gap for Energy Utilities

Abhisek Majumdar — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:52:46 +0000

The energy industry is in a bit of a technological whirlwind. Climate-related disruption and shifting adaptation requirements inject alarming levels of uncertainty into traditional business models, while a surge in amazing engineering breakthroughs and innovations simultaneously present irresistible opportunities for enhanced efficacy and resilience.

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Oracle Taps VoltaGrid for 2.3-GW Modular Gas Fleet to Power AI Data Centers Across Texas

Sonal Patel — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:30:43 +0000

Texas-based rapid-deployment power specialist VoltaGrid will deploy 2,300 MW of modular, ultra-low-emissions natural gas generation to support Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI’s) artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, backed by firm fuel from Energy Transfer’s 140,000-mile pipeline and storage network. Under the collaboration announced Oct. 15, VoltaGrid said its proprietary modular platform—featuring INNIO Jenbacher reciprocating engines and […]

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