This week, the energy world convenes in New York for the United Nations Climate Week. The gathering will encompass the most vital sectors of the U.S. economy at present-technology firms and utilities will be well-represented, along with a host of consultants, suppliers, experts, and academics, who consistently attend these events. UN Climate Week mirrors another [...]The post Powering AI: From CERA Week Optimism to New York Climate Week Realism appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Data center operators are keenly aware that securing access to the grid is job number one on their to-do list. But the extraordinary demand placed on the grid by artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) has another concern rapidly ascending the list: power quality. While data centers running traditional workloads have largely solved for [...]The post Power Quality in the AI Era: Solving for Subharmonics appeared first on POWER Magazine.

As AI demand accelerates, the race is on to bend the power curve before it bends the grid. The first electric refrigerators were mechanical curiosities-loud, bulky appliances that consumed staggering amounts of electricity. But they spread anyway, because the productivity gains were too great to ignore. Daily habits shifted. Food systems reshaped. Household labor changed [...]The post The Long Arc of Efficiency: What Refrigerators Teach Us About the Future of AI Data Centers appeared first on POWER Magazine.