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Is Maryland’s power grid ready for EVs?

Summary by The Baltimore Sun

Recently, several transformers in our neighborhood were replaced by our provider, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, due to sporadic outages. I talked to several service personnel who spoke of concern over the capacity of our aging electric grid to handle the increased power requirements caused by significant increase by electric vehicle demand. I am not critical of increased EV use but if Maryland’s grid is at risk for future widespread ou…

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The Baltimore Sun

Is Maryland’s power grid ready for EVs?

25 days ago·Baltimore, United States

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Oil Price

U.S. Grid Investments Jump as AI Leads Power Demand Surge

A number of grid operators and utilities in the United States are planning billions of U.S. dollars worth of investments in power transmission lines and networks as American electricity demand rises after two decades of stagnation. The advancements in AI and the surge in electricity demand for powering and cooling data centers have prompted the utilities sector to realign their goals and investment plans as they seek to keep up with the consumpt…

25 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Financial Post

AI's Electricity Demand Means Cool New Tech Is Coming to Boring Grids

(Bloomberg) — Bosses at artificial intelligence companies aren’t worried about the end of the world or the start of government regulations. Their biggest worry is more mundane: finding enough electricity to keep servers running at data centers.

25 days ago·Canada

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Bloomberg

AI’s Electricity Demand Means Cool New Tech Is Coming to Boring Grids

The rush to power data centers is helping startups developing superconducting cables and real-time grid information find new investors.

25 days ago·United States

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Clean Technica

AI Electricity Demand Spike Already Drooping Due To Innovation - CleanTechnica

At present we’re in another wave of hysteria regarding data center energy demands, this time focused on concerns related to AI. It was all over Davos, for example. Many decarbonization folks, although not me, are deeply concerned about the electricity demands of the various large language models and generative AI ... [continued] The post AI Electricity Demand Spike Already Drooping Due To Innovation appeared first on CleanTechnica.

26 days ago

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Audi MediaCenter

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Audi simulates global power grids to test EV charging

Whether with 110 or 230 volts or 50 or 60 hertz, at Audi in Ingolstadt, electric cars can now be charged as if they were in China, the United States, or in numerous other countries around the globe. At the new electric-charging test center at the Ingolstadt site, Technical Development is testing electric Audi models under the conditions that prevail in the various sales regions. The results are incorporated directly into the research and develop…

25 days ago

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