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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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

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14 hours ago