How tech giants with data centers to power AI can reduce consumers' electricity bills

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michael Thomas, CEO of Cleanview, about his new report on tech companies' plans to build their own off-grid power plants to provide energy for data centers.
Security Boulevard

Airtable’s 500K Row Limit Is Not a Scalability Fix, It’s a Signal to Rethink Your Data Strategy

Airtable’s new 500,000-row limit is making headlines, but it is not a true scalability upgrade. It is a signal. A signal that many teams are...Read More The post Airtable’s 500K Row Limit Is Not a ...
Forbes

AI’s Data Center Boom Is Testing Power Grids And Local Communities

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Reuters

Microsoft exploring using advanced power lines to make data centers more energy-efficient

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is exploring using superconducting power lines in its data centers, which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server ...
Business Wire

Snowflake Makes Enterprise Data AI-Ready With Snowflake Postgres and Advanced Innovations for Open Data Interoperability

Leading enterprises including BlueCloud and Sigma Computing will rely on Snowflake Postgres to reduce data silos and complex data pipelines for AI and analytics use cases Snowflake Horizon Catalog ...
Phys.org

New database reveals how Americans use water

Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and ...
WYFF

Major power provider asking customers to reduce energy use

SO WE CAN GET YOU LISTED. WELL, DUKE ENERGY SAYS EXTREMELY COLD TEMPERATURES 10 TO 20 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL ARE CAUSING VERY HIGH ENERGY DEMANDS ACROSS OUR AREAS. WELL, THEY’RE ASKING ALL OF ITS ...
The Verge

The winter storm tested power grids straining to accommodate AI data centers

Electricity costs spiked around ‘data center alley’ as frigid temperatures threatened the power grid. Electricity costs spiked around ‘data center alley’ as frigid temperatures threatened the power ...
The Hill

A faster way to power AI ambitions: Make your own electricity

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of 13 governors announced an agreement urging the PJM Interconnection — the largest electric grid operator in the U.S. — to “…expand the energy supply, ...
IEEE

Digital Twins for Power Systems: Review of Current Practices, Requirements, Enabling Technologies, Data Federation, and Challenges

Abstract: The Digital Twins (DT) have emerged as the technology that provides capabilities to simulate and analyze cyber-physical systems’ behaviors using digital replicas. This is achieved through ...
Wall Street Journal

Data Centers’ Power Failure

While I agree with Peter Huntsman’s assessment of the environmental lobby’s hijacking of U.S. energy policy, and the need for restoration of fossil fuel supply, his argument for catering to the energy ...