FERC Orders New Grid Rules for AI and Data Centers
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has directed the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to develop new reliability rules for integrating large computational...
The Growing Energy Demand of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being adopted rapidly, raising questions about its growing electricity use and environmental impact. In 2025, AI accounted for about 0.5%...
Canada Sends Record Power to New York as Heat Wave Drives Demand
On July 3, 2026, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) imported 52 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of...
Heat Wave Pushes UK Power Grid to the Limit
Bloomberg reports how extreme summer temperatures placed unusual pressure on Britain’s electricity system. Rising temperatures drove higher demand for cooling from households and businesses,...
Transformer Crunch Becomes New Challenge for AI Growth
According to the Financial Times, electricity transformers have become one of the biggest bottlenecks in the global AI boom, as soaring demand from data...
Superconductivity Could Unlock the Next Generation of AI Data Centers
According to Data Center Dynamics (DCD), the rapid growth of AI data centers is creating new challenges in how electricity is delivered, pushing high-temperature...
US Nuclear Energy Revival Gains Momentum With Aalo-X Success
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced another milestone in the American nuclear energy renaissance as Aalo Atomics’ Aalo-X test reactor successfully completed a...
AI Infrastructure Fuels Surge in High-Speed Battery Demand
Battery startups are increasingly targeting AI data centers as a new high-margin market, where rapid and extreme power fluctuations created by AI workloads are...
250 Years of Power: America’s Energy Transformation
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) traces the evolution of US energy consumption from 1776 to 2025, highlighting a transition from wood to coal,...
The AI Breakthrough Transforming America’s Power Grid
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to accelerate the development of GridSearch, an AI-powered...