The new reality for data centers: no easy answers
For 20 years, the blueprint for data centers was simple: find some land, get in line for power, and trust that the utility could deliver. Data centers and power infrastructure got built on separate tr...
2 Heinä 34min
How APS dove head-first into AI [partner content]
AI is about far more than chatbots and copilots. For utilities, the bigger opportunity may be in applying purpose-built models to the operational data from smart meters, customer systems, weather, out...
30 Kesä 20min
Is commercial fusion finally near?
For a half century, fusion has been a scientific story playing out in national labs, government research budgets, and peer-reviewed journals. Every so often, a bold claim captures the public's attenti...
26 Kesä 59min
SpaceX’s IPO is an energy story
Depending on where you sit, SpaceX is either the greatest industrial company of our time, or a CapEx bonfire that requires a lot of imagination to justify. But either way, the company’s public debut ...
18 Kesä 41min
America’s electricity rage is here
The anger and anxiety over electricity in America is palpable. You can see it in packed utility commission hearings, in protests against companies, and in furious reactions on social media. And you c...
12 Kesä 49min
The biggest utility merger in US history?
First, it was a power bottleneck. Then a compute bottleneck. Now, as AI agents burn through tokens faster than anyone predicted, we're back in a compute shortage. Meanwhile, it's getting harder than e...
5 Kesä 1h 1min
The climate messaging war returns. Does it matter if we can’t build?
A familiar debate is reemerging in US politics: is it helpful or damaging to talk about climate change? It broke into the open when the New York Times published an op-ed from Matthew Huber arguing th...
29 Touko 1h 7min
Crypto’s bare-knuckle politics come to climate
Last year, clean energy attracted double the investment of fossil fuels. It's now a multi-trillion dollar industry globally, and the dominant source of new capacity in the US. And yet in the 2024 ele...
22 Touko 46min
