Brandon Owens
Flexible Data Centers: The Architecture of Optionality
Data centers, once bound to diesel backup, are shifting toward flexibility—using orchestration, batteries, geo-distribution, and hydrogen to align workloads with grids. Reliability is being redefined: from redundancy built on combustion to responsiveness built on optionality.
Can Virtual Power Plants Finance, Accredit, and De-Risk America’s AI-Era Grid?
11.10.25: AI's Grid Strain Amplified by Manufacturing Resurgence
AI’s surge is straining grids, driving up electricity costs, and reshaping infrastructure policy. From OpenAI’s push for incentives to new grid tech trials and record data-center growth, this week’s news shows AI now influences the power sector as much as it depends on it.
The AI Factory? Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, and the Energy Realities of Reindustrialization
Powering the Intelligence Age: How Hyperscalers Are Reviving U.S. Nuclear Plants to Fuel AI
The Cognitive Grid Part I: Why the Grid Is Now an Intelligence Problem
AI is turning electricity from a passive utility into active intelligence. As algorithms shape forecasting and dispatch, power becomes adaptive and moral. Cognitive Infrastructure Theory (CIT) argues that the grid’s greatest challenge isn’t capacity—but governance.