AIxEnergy (Page 2)

AI’s Missing Middle

Utilities do not need more pilots. They need governed operating models that turn GenAI and agentic AI into reliable, auditable, regulator-ready performance.

Cognitive Grid

Brandon Owens

Jun 15, 2026 — 15 min read

The Grid’s Next Bottleneck Is Proof

AI is making analysis cheap just as data centers are forcing harder electricity decisions. The winners will be the institutions that can verify what their models claim.

Cognitive Grid This Month

Brandon Owens

Jun 14, 2026 — 17 min read

The Geography of Intelligence

As AI Pushes U.S. Electricity Demand to Record Highs, a New Computing Architecture Is Emerging

Cognitive Grid This Month

Brandon Owens

Jun 14, 2026 — 6 min read

The Power Sector's AI Decade

Part 4: Not Humanly Possible

Article Series

Michael Leifman

Jun 11, 2026 — 11 min read

The Millisecond Menace

The 800-volt DC data center promises faster, leaner AI infrastructure. But synchronized GPU power swings are turning electrical design into a millisecond-scale control problem.

Shadow Grid

Morgan Bazilian

Jun 10, 2026 — 13 min read

The Cyber-Physical Frontier of AI

Frontier models, software vulnerability discovery, and the electric grid now belong in the same risk conversation

Cognitive Grid

Brandon Owens

Jun 4, 2026 — 19 min read

Recursive AI and the Cognitive Grid

The governance problem begins before machines take control. It begins when AI starts shaping the decisions humans believe they are still making.

Cognitive Grid

Brandon Owens

Jun 4, 2026 — 8 min read

The Prompt Box Is Part of the Energy System: Why Sustainable AI Is Not Just a Data Center Problem

AI’s environmental impact depends not only on data centers, chips, and power supply, but on how people use it. Sustainable AI requires purposeful prompting, right-sized models, less low-value output, and better “demand architecture” for computation.

This Week

Ian Todreas

Jun 1, 2026 — 11 min read