Nvidia announced Monday it will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data center developer backed by SoftBank and OpenAI, and provide up to $105 billion in credit to build OpenAI's Ports-Pike data cent…
IBM Research and partners released GENCO, an open-source neural solver that unifies three steady-state grid-analysis tasks, alongside the GridFM Development Framework under Linux Foundation Energy's O…
Deep Isolation Nuclear and Halliburton are repurposing oil-drilling technology at the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center in Cameron, Texas, to bury radioactive waste in retrievable canisters about 2 m…
R&D World magazine presented the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) with four R&D 100 Awards for innovations including ALTRIOS, ENDURING, Pele, and pBPM. NLR has now …
Northeastern University scientist Arun Bansil and his team have developed an AI scientist capable of autonomously running X-ray experiments and adapting its approach in real time, as reported in the J…
The U.S. electrical grid is operating at its limit due to rapid industrial growth, extreme weather, and surging electricity demand, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The largest power transm…
IBM was selected on July 22, 2026, for a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission Phase I project on AI-assisted quantum application discovery, and committed up to $50 million in quantum-system acces…
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected IBM for a Phase I Genesis Mission project focused on AI-assisted quantum application development, with IBM providing up to $50 million in access to its quant…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratory of the Rockies are using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to uncover flaws in semiconductors and other materials, potentially boostin…
Northeastern University professor Hossein Mosallaei and his team received the U.S. Department of Energy's AI Genesis Award to advance research on brain-inspired computing devices called Self-Driving M…
The U.S. Department of Energy selected Brookfield Asset Management to develop a $100 billion AI data center complex with natural gas and battery storage at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentu…
The U.S. Department of Energy and Arcee AI announced Genesis-Science-1 (GS1), an American open-weight AI model for scientific computing workflows, with a contribution portal opening today and first-ro…
OpenAI has outlined a national science initiative to integrate frontier AI models with government research infrastructure, National Laboratories, and universities. The program includes funded access, …
The U.S. Department of Energy selected Brookfield Asset Management to develop a $100 billion AI data center and natural gas power complex at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky, wit…
Brookfield and NextEra Energy will develop a $100 billion AI data center campus at the U.S. Department of Energy's former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky, targeting 1.8 GW of compute capac…
Brookfield Asset Management and NextEra Energy are teaming with Big Rivers Electric Power, Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative and Paducah Power System to build a $100 billion AI data center campus on…
The U.S. Department of Energy on July 29 announced a partnership with Brookfield, NextEra Energy, Big Rivers Electric Power Corporation, Jackson Purchase Energy Cooperative and Paducah Power System to…
The U.S. Department of Energy selected four Texas A&M University research teams for its Genesis Mission to develop AI systems for critical mineral research, particle accelerator operations, and nuclea…
PJM Interconnection, the grid operator serving 67 million people across 13 states, received emergency federal authority in June 2026 to curtail data centers mid-operation to prevent blackouts, and use…
Xylem Inc. raised its full-year 2026 profit forecast on Tuesday, citing robust demand for water-treatment equipment driven by AI data center expansion. The company's second-quarter earnings beat Wall …