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Utilities spend billions on grid infrastructure every year to meet power demand. Despite the investments, the ever-mounting challenges, from addressing the power surge to ensuring grid reliability, continue outpacing the infrastructure upgrades. Against this backdrop, “virtual” power plants, which coordinate millions of smart devices already in customers’ homes, are gaining...

Meeting global climate targets will require not only scaling the decarbonization technologies but also increasing the amount of carbon removal from the atmosphere. Simply put, we need to develop carbon-negative solutions in addition to carbon-neutral solutions. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we’ve already burned through over...

In the past few decades, data centers have evolved from simple computer rooms in the 1960s to massive, purpose-built facilities powering today’s digital economy. Historically owned and operated by large corporations for their own use, dedicated hosting facilities emerged where multiple companies could house their equipment in shared spaces through...

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has taken the AI industry by storm recently, releasing two ground-breaking models in a row. DeepSeek-V3 was released quietly on December 26, 2024, right after OpenAI’s theatrical 12-day Christmas gift season. Deviating from the Dense Model used by OpenAI and other leading Large Language Model...

President Trump, on his first day in office, unveiled a slew of Executive Orders. A number of them focused on Energy and Climate, sending clear messages to the world: the US under the new administration will go all in with Energy, whatever the climate impacts are. While this is consistent...