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Why data center growth forecasts are essential to mitigating their impact on the grid

To plan for the impacts of data centers on the grid, experts can take upfront deposits and analyze a scope of possible ...
The Institute for Energy Research

FERC Accelerates Power Grid Hook-Ups for AI Data Centers

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a series of orders requiring power grid operators to remove bottlenecks that ...

ORNL director describes the lab’s cutting-edge research

ORNL Director Stephen Streiffer outlines how AI and quantum computing are accelerating fusion and energy research.
The Next Web

China’s green-power target for AI data centres runs into the grid

Beijing wants renewables to supply four-fifths of its AI data centres’ power by 2030. Forecasting and grid risk are getting in the way.
MIT Technology Review

Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.

As the data-center boom puts pressure on the grid, some companies say the answer isn’t just more power plants but software ...
Wired

Quantum Computing Is Having Its Public Market Moment

Quantinuum lost nearly $200 million last year, saw revenue drop the first quarter of 2026, and says its technology may never work–yet investors are clamoring to buy the stock. The quantum-computer ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft, Atom Computing update their quantum computing progress

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...
Scientific American

Microsoft’s new quantum computer chip has a fundamental problem

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence Microsoft claimed today that it has improved its ...
winbuzzer.com

Google Plans AlphaEvolve Cloud Rollout for Customers

Google said Wednesday that it plans to bring its Gemini-powered coding agent AlphaEvolve to commercial users through Google Cloud, turning an internal algorithm-search system into a product test for ...
POWER Magazine

Data Centers and the Grid: How Hyperscale Computing Is Reshaping Power Infrastructure

A power paradox is emerging in the hyperscale era: while computing demand is accelerating, power availability is increasingly becoming the constraint that determines where data centers are built, how ...
Reuters

US utilities scale up grid-boosting tech to meet surging demand

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. U.S. grid owners are investing in cost-efficient grid enhancements and virtual power plant schemes to help meet soaring demand but ...
Wall Street Journal

A New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...