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 ...
The New York Times

Grids Are Surviving the Storm. But the Next 5 Years Could Be Rough.

A group that monitors the U.S. electricity system warns that grid reliability is “worsening” and blackout risks are rising for millions of people. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington The ...
Fox Business

Massive winter storm strains US power grid as operators scramble to avoid blackouts

As a massive winter storm barrels across the U.S., power grid operators are taking extraordinary steps to keep the lights on and avoid rolling blackouts. The storm, stretching more than 2,300 miles, ...
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 ...
Morningstar

Schneider Electric Debuts One Digital Grid Platform to Help Utilities Modernize and Address Energy Costs

AI-enabled platform integrates planning, operations and asset management without the need to overhaul existing systems Provides real-time outage restoration estimates, including for storms and Public ...
New York Post

‘Dynamic pricing’ used to raise costs of everything from food and Uber rides to museum visits

If you feel like you’re being nickel-and-dimed everywhere you shop – you probably are. Instacart has been using a shady AI algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same ...
The New York Times

Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world. Andes Solar IV, one of the largest ...
Android Authority

Gemini's Dynamic View is great, just don't use it for every prompt

The new Dynamic View feature was announced last week as part of the Gemini 3.0 update. It started rolling out on the web version of Gemini recently, and I’ve been testing it out over the last few days ...
Macworld

Tested: Does Apple’s Dynamic Power Adapter really charge your iPhone faster?

When Apple introduced the new iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro/Max, it highlighted their even faster fast-charging abilities. With an appropriate USB-C charger that can deliver at least 40 watts, it can ...
Reuters

US grid investors focus on demand hotspots in planning shift

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. Surging power demand from data centers and manufacturing is reshaping the funding plans of transmission operators as the outlook for ...
Forbes

Positive Grid’s Spark LINK XLR Can Turn Any Dynamic Microphone Into A Wireless Device

Audio brand Positive Grid has announced the launch of Spark LINK XLR, a compact, wireless audio system designed to plug into dynamic XLR microphones or other XLR-based musical gear to make them ...
POWER Magazine

Why This Summer’s Heat Proved the Case for a Smarter Grid

Official forecasts from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and regional operators predicted tight conditions. They were right. In July, ...