X’s Chatbot Started Undressing Women. Was This What A.I. Wanted All Along?

Over a period of nine days, users prompted Grok, the platform’s A.I. chatbot, to generate more than 1.8 million of these ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
New Atlas

Off-grid tiny house embraces self-sufficient small living

The Chillhouse is a compact tiny house created with self-sufficient living in mind. Designed to operate off-grid, the towable home has a snug and storage-packed interior that comfortably accommodates ...
Crude Oil Prices

How Vulnerable is the US Electrical Grid to Winter Outages?

A winter wallop that delivered a blast of Arctic air to two-thirds of the United States last weekend brought with it power failures, partially due to snow, ice and falling trees or branches damaging ...
Los Angeles Times

Texas grid shows how batteries help avoid winter blackouts

Last month’s sprawling winter storm from Texas to New England was one of the first multigrid tests in the U.S. for big batteries. They passed. Texas, in particular, benefited from energy storage, ...
Grist

The winter storm exposed the grid’s real weakness: Lots of old poles

In 1843, Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 to try to send a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. Rather than bury the transmission wires underground, where technical issues would be hard to ...
Reuters

US power grid faces stress test amid arctic chill, data center demand

Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. power grid faces an elevated risk of disruption over the next several days as an Arctic blast and reduced gas supplies test the sturdiness of electric infrastructure ...
IEEE

How Many Grid-Forming Converters Do We Need? A Perspective From Small Signal Stability and Power Grid Strength

Abstract: Grid-forming (GFM) control has been considered a promising solution for accommodating large-scale power electronics converters into modern power grids thanks to its grid-friendly dynamics, ...
Wall Street Journal

Europe’s Green Energy Rush Slashed Emissions—and Crippled the Economy

European politicians pitched the continent’s green transition to voters as a win-win: Citizens would benefit from green jobs and cheap, abundant solar and wind energy alongside a sharp reduction in ...
The Texas Observer

Crypto’s Cryptic Texas Takeover

State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price. Eli McKay and John Weber, volunteers ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Amazon Says Berkshire Utility Failing to Power Data Centers

Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of ...