The electrical grid is facing unprecedented stress from the addition of new data centers. Software could offer a ...

Ian King says the kind of synchronized energy demand we experience on New Year’s Eve isn’t typical. AI is helping to keep the ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnered with the University of Tennessee to develop ...

In February 2021, Texas came within four minutes and 37 seconds of a complete statewide blackout. A winter storm knocked out 40 percent of the state’s grid capacity in just four hours, leaving ...

The grid is made up of power generators — such as dams, coal plants or wind turbines — and more than five million miles of power lines carrying electricity all over the country, according to the vice ...

If you can get new customers or new electricity consumption added to the grid when and where there is that spare capacity – ...

Illinois faces potential power shortages and price hikes due to retiring fossil fuel plants and rising energy demand from ...

After a major winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow across Central New York, National Grid is urging residents and ...

There are more than 200 data centers in Ohio already, and American Electric Power has claimed 30 gigawatts-worth of proposed data center projects want to connect to the grid. For context, peak load ...

My friend John E. Savage, An Wang professor emeritus of computer science at Brown University, asked ChatGPT about what might cause the U.S. electric grid to collapse. I offer here his exchange with ...