Books
AIxEnergy books explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping energy infrastructure and governance. Moving beyond hype, they trace the history of machine control and explain why AI has become an operational force inside the grid—raising urgent questions of power, accountability, and design.
Coming December 2025: The Cognitive Grid by Brandon N. Owens argues that artificial intelligence did not arrive as a gadget or a trend, but as infrastructure—quietly embedding judgment, memory, and decision-making into the systems that govern modern life. Tracing a lineage from early control machines and feedback systems to today’s AI-enabled power grids and data centers, the book reveals how intelligence has become an industrial input, inseparable from electricity, institutions, and governance. It contends that the central challenge of the AI era is not innovation speed, but constitutional design: how societies govern machines that now listen, decide, and act within critical infrastructure long before humans can intervene.