Frontier Forum: Future-proofing data center power infrastructure
Data centers face a critical timing problem. They need massive amounts of power immediately, but grid upgrades can take more than seven years to complete. Microgrids could be a solution to this growin...
7 Apr 202528min
Specialized AI brains for physical industry
Everyone wants a piece of general purpose models. Instacart has deployed ChatGPT for recipes and meal planning. The Mayo Clinic is using it to summarize patient records. Schneider Electric is using an...
4 Apr 202537min
The potential for flexible data centers
Tyler Norris says regulators have been getting two different stories. On one side, they’ve been hearing that data centers are largely inflexible loads. On the other, last year the U.S. Department of E...
27 Mar 202531min
Frontier Forum: How tax credit transfers are reshaping energy finance
In 2023, the U.S. market for transferable clean energy tax credits was just getting started. One year later, that market has tripled in size, with credits diversifying beyond wind and solar into nucle...
21 Mar 202534min
The coming robotics wave
Robots are becoming cheaper to make and more powerful because of AI. In the climate tech space, they’re already laying transmission lines, inspecting wind turbines, and installing solar panels.. And w...
20 Mar 202543min
An ode to electrochemistry
Batteries were electrochemistry’s breakout hit. For years it was a field that kept a low profile, outshined by flashier cousins like biotech and computer science. That is until lithium-ion batteries b...
13 Mar 202535min
How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]
Laurent Boinot, a power and utilities leader at Microsoft, remembers the moment he discovered the power of artificial intelligence. Years ago, as a student using a basic AI model to assess World Bank ...
11 Mar 202517min
A skeptic’s take on AI electricity load growth
The predictions are coming in hot. Data centers could grow to consume more than 9% of U.S. electricity generation by 2030, according to EPRI. That’s more than double its current estimated data center ...
6 Mar 202554min
