The Energy Edit

From Server Racks to Radiators: The Nordic “Hack” Turning AI Data Centers into City Heat

Finland and Sweden are treating waste heat like a civic resource — and it’s quietly rewriting the AI energy story. The part of AI’s power demand most people never think about: heat When people argue about AI and the grid, the conversation usually stops at megawatts: How much load? How fast? Who pays for upgrades? Important questions, but incomplete. Here’s the missing piece: the electricity that goes into a data center doesn’t disappear. It ends up as heat. That’s why the “d

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Grid Reliability

Google’s Grid Warning: Why Transmission Is the Real Threat to U.S. Grid Reliability

AI data centers are exposing the quiet bottleneck utilities can’t outrun: the wires, the queues, and the legacy systems behind them. Transmission Explained: The Grid’s Highways Most people talk about the grid like it’s one thing. It isn’t. It’s three big layers that do three different jobs. Generation is where electricity is made (power plants, wind, solar, batteries). Transmission is how that electricity moves long distances (the high-voltage “backbone”). And lastly, distrib

GRID RELIABILITY

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AI Is Quietly Rewriting Grid Reliability—and Texas Is the Warning Shot

Some Data Centers Now Demand as Much Power as Entire Cities A Number That Changes Everything If you want to understand where grid reliability is headed over the next decade, forget abstract forecasts and glossy net-zero scenarios for a moment. Look instead at a single number coming out of Texas: 226 gigawatts. That’s not a long-term projection or a speculative scenario. It’s the approximate volume of large-load interconnection requests currently sitting in the ERCOT queue , m

GRID RELIABILITY

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