Bridging SAP And Non-SAP Analytics: Building A Unified Data Ecosystem

As enterprises modernize, the question is no longer whether to use SAP or non-SAP tools, but how to make them work together ...
Wall Street Journal

The Factory Workers Who Build the Power Grid by Hand

SOUTH BOSTON, Va.—In a factory not far from the North Carolina state line, Robin Cisco walks her fingers across hundreds of feet of paper-insulated copper wire. Cisco is a “winder” at Hitachi Energy’s ...
The New Yorker

Bi Gan’s Dream Factory

In January, I travelled to the outskirts of Chongqing, passing by karaoke bars, a night market, and a Ferris wheel sprouting from the roof of a mall, before arriving at a large, nondescript exhibition ...
The Conversation

Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?

Theodore Kury is the Director of Energy Studies at the University of Florida’s Public Utility Research Center, which is sponsored in part by the Florida electric and gas utilities, the Florida Public ...
The Globe and Mail

Capital Power to provide electricity to unnamed data-centre builder in Alberta

Alberta’s nascent data-centre industry got a boost from one of the province’s largest electricity producers as Capital Power Corp. CPX-T announced a long-term agreement to provide energy to an unnamed ...
CBC.ca

Edmonton-based Capital Power to negotiate Alberta data centre deal, pursue U.S. acquisitions

Capital Power Corp. has announced agreements to pursue U.S. natural gas power acquisitions and to supply electricity to a data centre developer in Alberta. The Edmonton-based power generator said ...
Forbes

AI, Grid Constraints And The Real Power Crisis Facing Data Centers

AI has quickly become the defining driver of demand within global data centers, outpacing nearly every forecast made prior to the latest breakthroughs, and the resultant power consumption leap has not ...
Scientific American

Data Centers in Space Aren’t as Wild as They Sound

To hear Silicon Valley tell it, artificial intelligence is outgrowing the planet that gave birth to it. Data centers will account for nearly half of U.S. electricity demand growth between now and 2030 ...
Charlotte Observer

Duke Energy pledges fair bills, as experts question data centers’ impact on rates

Duke Energy is investing billions to upgrade its power grid, in part responding to unprecedented demand expected from a surge in new data centers. The Charlotte utility giant is adamant, however, that ...
Wall Street Journal

China’s AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity From World’s Biggest Grid

ULANQAB, China—The U.S. invented the most powerful artificial-intelligence models and controls access to the most advanced computer chips, but China has an ace to play in the global AI contest. China ...
Bloomberg L.P.

NextEra Shares Fall Amid Push to Move Into Data Centers and Gas

NextEra Energy Inc., the big clean-power developer that’s been pivoting into natural gas generation preferred by President Donald Trump, announced Monday a flurry of plans to develop data centers and ...