USA Today

Here's the Indianapolis 500 TV info, starting grid, weather and more

The 110th Indianapolis 500 is scheduled for Sunday, with the green flag dropping at 12:45 p.m. ET. The field includes nine past winners, such as four-time champion Helio Castroneves and two-time ...
Healthline

One Small Step for Wet AMD: Use the Amsler Grid to Test Your Vision

Wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) happens when abnormal blood vessels leak fluid into the macula. It can cause wavy lines, blurriness, and dark spots, but not peripheral vision loss. The ...
Reuters

US utilities scale up grid-boosting tech to meet surging demand

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. U.S. grid owners are investing in cost-efficient grid enhancements and virtual power plant schemes to help meet soaring demand but ...
Wall Street Journal

A New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...
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 ...
The New York Times

Grids Are Surviving the Storm. But the Next 5 Years Could Be Rough.

A group that monitors the U.S. electricity system warns that grid reliability is “worsening” and blackout risks are rising for millions of people. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington The ...
Wall Street Journal

America’s Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem—Too Many Data Centers

America’s AI boom is pushing the nation’s largest power-grid operator to the brink of a supply crisis. Sixty-seven million people in a 13-state region stretching from New Jersey to Kentucky get their ...
WBUR

As Mass. pushes for big batteries on the grid, some communities push back

Massachusetts is making a big push for batteries — not the kind you put in a flashlight, but powerful, tractor trailer-sized batteries that store energy for the electric grid. State officials say more ...
MIT Technology Review

AI is changing the grid. Could it help more than it harms?

Massive data centers are pushing energy demand higher. Some people claim that AI will be a net benefit for the grid. The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so ...
Forbes

Is The U.S. Headed For A Power Grid Crisis?

PEMBROKE PINES, FLORIDA - MAY 16: High voltage power lines run along the electrical power grid on May 16, 2024, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The grid is strained by increasing demand from ...
Inside Climate News

Nine Governors Write to Regional Grid Operator PJM, Expressing Frustration Over Governance and Interconnection Delays

A bipartisan group of governors wants a larger seat at the table of PJM Interconnection, the regional electric grid operator that has had issues getting clean and affordable energy sources onto the ...