Watt’s Up with Cyber and AI? Navigating Legal Currents in Power Generation and Smart Grids

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:30:40 +0000

In the rapidly evolving landscape of power generation, companies are increasingly integrating smart grids and artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations. This transition, while promising enhanced efficiency and reliability, also […]

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The power sector’s relentless pursuit of an increasingly connected power paradigm amid an escalating cyber threat landscape demands an urgent, multifaceted strategy for cybersecurity. Recently, the sector has embarked on innovative methods to tackle inherent challenges in its evolving quest for a robust cybersecurity posture. Source: POWER

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THE BIG PICTURE: How Much Power Will Data Centers Consume? (Infographic)

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:07:22 +0000

Driven by artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and the digital transformation, U.S. data centers consumed an estimated 150 TWh of electricity in 2023—equivalent to around 3% of the nation’s power […]

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Aurora Energy Research projects that Northern Virginia alone could see the addition of 11 GW to 16 GW of data center capacity by 2030. Meanwhile, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the data center share of electricity load in Virginia could climb to 50% by 2030, with similar trends expected in other major U.S. states.

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Powering the Future: How AI’s Energy Demands Could Push Power Grid to Its Limits

Credit to Author: Joe Morgan| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:45:16 +0000

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption skyrockets—and especially generative AI (genAI)—the underlying infrastructure powering these technologies faces unprecedented demands. Data centers, the nerve centers of AI operations, rely heavily on electricity, […]

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Is a Modular Data Center the Answer to Tech Industry’s Land and Energy Crisis?

Credit to Author: Joe Reele| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:57:10 +0000

The digital age is fundamentally dependent on data centers, which serve as the backbone of our technological infrastructure. Without them, the digital world as we know it would not exist. […]

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Navigating Rising Power Demand and Avoiding Vendor Limitations

Credit to Author: Coy Wright| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:40:04 +0000

Utility companies are going headfirst into a whirlwind of challenges from increasing electricity demands and new sustainability initiatives, to meeting evolving customer expectations. Power demand in the U.S. is on […]

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Artificial Intelligence Has Entered the Nuclear Industry and Its Early Benefits Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:09:16 +0000

A collaboration between startup Atomic Canyon and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory allowed construction of a sentence-embedding model using 53 million pages of Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents

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