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The tech industry’s need for sustainable and reliable energy sources has never been more pressing. “As power-intensive generative AI training and inference continues to grow faster than other uses and applications, global data center electricity...
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The tech industry’s need for sustainable and reliable energy sources has never been more pressing. “As power-intensive generative AI training and inference continues to grow faster than other uses and applications, global data center electricity consumption could roughly double” by...
Not entirely out of sight, but almost always out of mind, cell towers quietly form the backbone of modern communication, powering everything from texts and phone calls to TikTok videos. Some topping 200 feet, they can stand tall like sentinels...
Paris shines in the popular imagination as the City of Light. But its allure also flickers deep underground. There are the sewers made immortal by Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and by Éléonore, an 8-foot Nile crocodile caught living there in...
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S. Congress were looking for ways to fight the Great Depression, they drafted the Rural Electrification Act. Passed in 1936, the bill brought electricity to rural America and helped spark an economic recovery....
Aerial view of the Diablo Dam in Washington. It’s one of the three facilities located on the Skagit River listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Courtesy of HDRWe love epic engineering sagas. TV shows like Modern Marvels, Impossible...
While the rise in energy prices worldwide, as well as the prices at the pumps, is receiving a significant amount of attention, there is little affection for the global operators. They are certainly making the most of a high-demand market,...
Extreme weather, vegetation encroachment, regulatory pressures, and distributed energy resources (DER) integration are just a few examples of the countless challenges facing electric utilities. Aging equipment and infrastructure, unpredictable and shifting electricity demands, cybersecurity threats, and decarbonization pressures add to...
