A.I.’s First Big Math Breakthrough Is Not What It Seems

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...
USA Today

America’s aging power grid faces new demands | The Excerpt

On the Monday, March 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Aging infrastructure, rising demand and extreme weather are testing the U.S. power grid in new ways. How can we ensure its reliability?
Reuters

US utilities scale up grid-boosting tech to meet surging demand

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. U.S. grid owners are investing in cost-efficient grid enhancements and virtual power plant schemes to help meet soaring demand but ...
Wall Street Journal

A New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
Wall Street Journal

America’s Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem—Too Many Data Centers

America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...
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Immaculate Grid Tic Tac Toe is harder than chess

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WBUR

As Mass. pushes for big batteries on the grid, some communities push back

Massachusetts is making a big push for batteries — not the kind you put in a flashlight, but powerful, tractor trailer-sized batteries that store energy for the electric grid. State officials say more ...
MIT Technology Review

AI is changing the grid. Could it help more than it harms?

Massive data centers are pushing energy demand higher. Some people claim that AI will be a net benefit for the grid. The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so ...