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From Solar and Storage to Data Centers: 7 Trends in Power Infrastructure for 2026
6+ hour, 17+ min ago (245+ words) Latitude Media covers the new frontiers of the energy transition through in-depth B2 B news, research, events, and podcasts. We go beyond the headlines to provide impactful and actionable coverage on the deals, market dynamics, and technologies that are shaping the…...
Meta makes a bid for space-based solar
11+ hour, 32+ min ago (481+ words) Unlike Elon Musk's approach of putting compute into orbit, Overview Energy plans to beam energy to solar farms here on Earth. Meta plans to power part of its massive artificial intelligence ambitions using solar panels in outer space. The tech…...
Live from Transition-AI 2026: Inside Google's massive AI capex
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (1411+ words) Amin Vahdat, Google's chief technologist for AI infrastructure, explains how he's allocating funds to meet unprecedented demand. As the race to build out artificial intelligence accelerates, the infrastructure required to support it is undergoing a remarkable transformation. In February, Google…...
Developers say off-grid data centers won't be "a huge part of the market'
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (744+ words) At least one off-grid developer, Fermi, has struggled to find a tenant. As AI data center developers wait in long lines to hook up to the grid, a growing number are choosing to ditch that process altogether." Microsoft last month…...
A billion-dollar play on electrified transport
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (1074+ words) Neha Palmer lays out Terawatt Infrastructure's strategy to build a national charging network. "In 2021, Neha Palmer co-founced Terawatt Infrastructure with a bold mission: create the backbone for America's electric trucking revolution. Within its first year, Terawatt secured a billion-dollar investment....
Tapestry is using AI to help PJM clear its interconnection backlog
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (544+ words) Page Crahan, general manager of Alphabet's moonshot for the grid, digs into recent advances transforming grids around the world. Tapestry, an Alphabet "moonshot" project, aims to help countries around the world navigate dramatic load growth. By optimizing grid management and…...
Can Span turn homes into AI inference hubs?
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (490+ words) Exclusive: The smart panel company is testing the XFRA Node, a module powered by excess grid capacity " and located at customer homes. The smart panel company Span will roll out a high-performance edge data center later this year that can…...
The natural gas "bridge" becomes a highway
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1965+ words) What's behind the big natural gas bets from Meta, Microsoft, and Google? For a long time, fossil gas was considered a bridge fuel. Even the gas industry called it a bridge, working hand in hand with environmental groups to push…...
What's behind Soma Energy "bottom-up' solution for grid utilization
2+ week, 4+ day ago (676+ words) The company emerged from stealth this month armed with $7 million and an ex-AWS executive at the helm. When Ath Caramanolis joined AWS in 2018 after years working as an energy trader, his job was to procure renewable power for the hyperscaler....
The rise of flexible data centers
2+ week, 4+ day ago (677+ words) Emerald AI's Varun Sivaram explains how to enable data centers to operate as grid assets. As the buildout of data centers accelerates on a dramatic trajectory, its strain on the electric grid has increased in turn; forecasts suggest they could…...