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AI and Energy Infrastructure: Five Trends Shaping U.S. Power in 2025
In 2025, AI transforms U.S. energy: data centers become baseload, GenAI aids grid ops, and smart microgrids enhance resilience. Buildouts outpace climate goals. Digital twins model people and machines, marking a shift to intelligent, adaptive power systems.

AI’s Electric Empire: Sectoral Load Growth and the Grid Divide
AI × Energy decodes how AI rewires energy systems—tracking demand growth, smart grids, renewables, storage, markets, and policy—so analysts, builders, investors, operators and regulators stay ahead.

The Digital Load Curve: How Computing Rewired America’s Grid—and Why AI May Break It Again
AI × Energy decodes how AI rewires energy systems—tracking demand growth, smart grids, renewables, storage, markets, and policy—so analysts, builders, investors, operators and regulators stay ahead.
America Needs a National AI Energy Policy
Artificial intelligence is driving a surge in electricity demand, yet the U.S. lacks a national strategy to manage it. This Clean Power Shift article calls for a coordinated AI energy policy to modernize the grid, align innovation with infrastructure, and prevent a looming energy crisis.
Digital Giants and the Race for Net-Zero Data Centers
Data centers are surging in energy and water demand. Can we build truly net-zero facilities? Discover the technologies, policies, and strategies reshaping digital sustainability. Read the full “Toward Net Zero” report now at CleanPowerShift.com.
The Intelligence Revolution: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Energy
AI is reshaping global energy, driving surging electricity demand while unlocking breakthroughs in innovation, resilience, and sustainability. The future of energy and AI is intertwined—and the choices we make now will define both.

Wired for Power
AI is driving a surge in U.S. electricity demand, with data centers now consuming vast amounts of power. This rapid growth is reshaping the grid, requiring new strategies for energy planning. While AI offers opportunities for innovation.
