Neutralizing the Gigascale Problem: How to Solve the Physical Power Paradox of Extreme AI Training Loads
Neutralizing the Gigascale Problem: How to Solve the Physical Power Paradox of Extreme AI Training Loads

This sponsored article is brought to you by Ampace.As AI workloads grow to gigascale levels, the global data center industry has hit a hidden physical wall. The real bottleneck is no longer just the thermal limit of the chip or the capacity of the coo…

Sardinia’s Ancient Reasons for Rejecting a Clean Energy Future
Sardinia’s Ancient Reasons for Rejecting a Clean Energy Future

“Why are you here?” Fabrizio Pilo, an electrical engineer, asks me as we sit in an outdoor café near his home in Cagliari, an ancient city on the island of Sardinia. It’s a fair question. I’m a journalist from the United States. I’d just stepped off m…

Crusoe makes big battery buys for its data centers

Form Energy and Redwood Materials both received orders from the data center developer.

The best AI investment might be in energy tech

Power has become one of the biggest bottlenecks in rolling out new AI data centers. That’s creating an opening for investors.

New Polymer Blend Could Help Store Energy for the Grid and EVs
New Polymer Blend Could Help Store Energy for the Grid and EVs

As electronics demand higher energy density, one component has proved challenging to shrink: the capacitor. Making a smaller capacitor usually requires thinning the dielectric layer or electrode surface area, which has often resulted in a reduction of…

Google and Tesla think we’re managing the electrical grid all wrong

The duo have teamed up with other companies to launch Utilize, which seeks to change how the grid is used and regulated.

Google paid startup Form Energy $1B for its massive 100-hour battery

The deal paves the way for Form Energy to raise a new funding round before potentially going public next year.

Lunar Energy raises $232M to deploy home batteries that prop up the grid

The startup has raised more than $500 million, to date, from investors to build a massive, distributed power plant supported by residential batteries.