energy
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American Electric Power plans a $4 billion, 702 MW Bloom Energy fuel-cell project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a 20-year power agreement with Google.
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BitFuFu says Ethiopia’s power curtailment is now largely reflected in its results. September output fell 4%, but self-mining rose to 98 BTC and the company expects limited additional impact.
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ERCOT is considering a pending rule that could let flexible loads such as Bitcoin mines pair with batteries or generation to reduce curtailment while preserving mandatory grid response during scarcity.
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AI data-center growth is reviving the case for major transmission expansion as PJM works through billions of dollars in grid upgrades and tens of gigawatts of generation wait on transmission work.
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GitHub secret scanning now blocks Anthropic user and service API keys with push protection by default and adds Salesforce as a secret scanning partner.
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Google Play now lets adults in supported markets run personal Android apps built with Google AI Studio on their own devices without a developer account.
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A Delaware jury found Arm breached Qualcomm’s architectural license agreement and interfered with its Meta business, while Arm prevailed on four other claims. The jury awarded $2 total.
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SK hynix unveiled MARS, a CXL-based memory-centric AI rack architecture designed to pool memory across CPUs and GPUs and reduce duplicated data movement.
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Open Compute Project is evaluating high-temperature superconducting power infrastructure for future AI data centers, from grid interfaces to rack-level distribution.
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HIVE Digital Technologies says Bitcoin mining remains the cash-generating base of a broader renewable-power strategy even as the company shifts some of its electrical infrastructure toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. In a September 10 operating update, HIVE said its combined Bitcoin-hashrate and GPU-cloud businesses had exceeded $1 million in average daily revenue. Since August…
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The U.S. Department of Energy has given PJM Interconnection temporary emergency authority to call additional generation and, if conditions worsen enough, direct backup generators at large electricity users to operate through October 16. Under DOE Order No. 202-26-50, issued October 12 and effective October 13–16, PJM may dispatch specified generating units as needed for reliability.…
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OCP says AI racks are on a path past 1 MW as the industry moves from 800 VDC toward 1,500 VDC and more tightly co-designed power, cooling and grid infrastructure.
