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Utilities turn to AI to manage rising power demand — from AI
Utility Dive · Oct 22, 2026
Utilities use AI mainly for forecasting and maintenance; auditability, data quality and IT/OT cyber risk limit broader deployment.
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Energy
3 principles to make AI data centers good grid citizens
Utility Dive · Sep 1, 2026
Op-ed from NVIDIA, Invenergy, Heron Power and Emerald AI executives: data centers should ride through grid disturbances, flex when the grid is stressed and add capacity.
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Energy
Can AI revolutionize grid operations?
Latitude Media · Aug 20, 2026
ThinkLabs AI's CEO discusses the grid's real pressure points and where AI can help operations.
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Energy
Five trends that are shaping the new market for distributed capacity
Latitude Media · Jul 16, 2026
Trends in grid-edge flexibility and distributed capacity in the AI era, framed ahead of Latitude's Flex Summit.
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Energy
Tesla, Sunrun, Renew Home team up on massive 16GW virtual power plant
Canary Media · Jun 24, 2026
Home batteries and smart thermostats are being aggregated into a virtual power plant to help serve AI-driven data center load.
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Energy
This software firm has a plan to take grid-enhancing tech nationwide
Canary Media · Jun 10, 2026
OATI, whose software most U.S. grid operators already use, wants to apply AI and data to increase transmission capacity.
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Energy
CISA's CI Fortify Initiative Signals a Shift in How the U.S. Government Thinks About Grid Threats
POWER Magazine · May 12, 2026
CISA's CI Fortify initiative tells utilities to plan for compromised OT networks and lost connectivity during a crisis.
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Energy
Securing the Grid from the Sensor Up: Why Predictive Maintenance and Cybersecurity Are Inseparable
POWER Magazine · May 1, 2026
The sensors and data streams behind predictive maintenance are also attack surfaces, so cybersecurity has to be treated as part of reliability.
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Energy
CPS Energy Plans to Deploy 900 MHz Private Wireless Broadband
T&D World · Feb 2, 2026
CPS Energy and Anterix plan a private LTE network to support grid automation, outage response and resilience.
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Energy and utilities
- Utility Dive, “Utilities turn to AI to manage rising power demand — from AI” (Oct 22, 2026)
- Utility Dive, “3 principles to make AI data centers good grid citizens” (Sep 1, 2026)
- Latitude Media, “Can AI revolutionize grid operations?” (Aug 20, 2026)
- Latitude Media, “Five trends that are shaping the new market for distributed capacity” (Jul 16, 2026)
- Canary Media, “Tesla, Sunrun, Renew Home team up on massive 16GW virtual power plant” (Jun 24, 2026)
- Canary Media, “This software firm has a plan to take grid-enhancing tech nationwide” (Jun 10, 2026)
- POWER Magazine, “CISA's CI Fortify Initiative Signals a Shift in How the U.S. Government Thinks About Grid Threats” (May 12, 2026)
- POWER Magazine, “Securing the Grid from the Sensor Up: Why Predictive Maintenance and Cybersecurity Are Inseparable” (May 1, 2026)
- T&D World, “CPS Energy Plans to Deploy 900 MHz Private Wireless Broadband” (Feb 2, 2026)
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