Power & Energy
Articles (6)
When the Grid Says No: Denmark and the New Shape of the Power Question
Energinet didn't pause grid connections in a contested metro or a zoning fight - it paused them because 60 GW of queued demand met a 7 GW national peak, and the math stopped working.
Sustainability and Quantum Systems Move to Center of Jack Dongarra HPC Award
Devesh Tiwari named fifth recipient of the Jack Dongarra Early Career Award, with the committee citing production-deployed energy work and NISQ-era systems research.
Anthropic Locks 3.5 GW of Google TPU Capacity as Commercial AI Pre-Purchases Infrastructure Scientific Computing Will Need
Broadcom will supply Anthropic with 3.5 GW of Google TPU capacity through 2031; ~23-35x the power of DOE's largest planned science supercomputer.
Nvidia's $1 Trillion Backlog Hits the Grid Capacity Wall
Nvidia projects $1T in Blackwell orders through 2027, but 72% of operators cite grid capacity as the primary constraint. Power now limits AI.
A Missile Can Take Down an Availability Zone. That's Enough.
Iranian drone strikes took down AWS availability zones in Dubai and Bahrain, forcing a global reassessment of data center siting.
100 Gigawatts: The Data Center Supercycle That's Rewriting Energy Policy
Power has replaced transistor density as the binding constraint on computing growth. The consequences are reshaping everything from real estate markets to geopolitics.