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Speed to Power: How Virtual Power Plants Can Finance, Accredit, and De-Risk America’s AI-Era Grid

Speed to Power: How Virtual Power Plants Can Finance, Accredit, and De-Risk America’s AI-Era Grid

Virtual Power Plants could unlock America’s AI future—providing fast, flexible, low-cost capacity to power data centers while easing grid strain and protecting consumers. The next race isn’t for silicon—it’s for speed to power.

The Cognitive Grid Part II: Building a Constitutional Intelligence System for Energy Infrastructure

The Cognitive Grid Part II: Building a Constitutional Intelligence System for Energy Infrastructure

The electric grid will evolve into a Cognitive Grid — one capable of real-time reasoning, adaptation and learning. This shift demands not just automation, but responsible infrastructure intelligence with embedded governance, ethical frameworks and auditability rather than retrofitted oversight.

The AI Factory? Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, and the Energy Realities of Reindustrialization

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

Powering the Intelligence Age: How Hyperscalers Are Reviving U.S. Nuclear Plants to Fuel AI

Tech giants are turning to nuclear power to fuel AI. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are backing reactor restarts and next-gen designs—reviving U.S. plants in Iowa and Pennsylvania to secure 24/7 carbon-free energy and anchor America’s digital infrastructure for the AI era.

Managing Data Center Uncertainty Part II — Phantom Data Centers: How Strategic Opacity Drives Overbuild

Managing Data Center Uncertainty Part II — Phantom Data Centers: How Strategic Opacity Drives Overbuild

AI developers are inflating power demand with phantom data centers—projects that exist on paper but never connect. Utilities build for the illusion, regulators approve the excess, and ratepayers bear the cost. Increased transparency can break the cycle.

The Cognitive Grid Part I: Why the Grid Is Now an Intelligence Problem

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.

The State Playbook for Equitable Data-Center Growth

The State Playbook for Equitable Data-Center Growth

States must ensure AI-driven data center growth strengthens—not strains—the grid. Fair pricing, consumer protection, and community reciprocity can align private innovation with public equity, turning energy demand into shared resilience.