After years spent traveling and working around the globe, Jon and Etta Smith are settling down with their 18-month-old daughter, Syndi. In one of the most remote corners of northwestern Montana, they ...

Power demand is expected to reach record highs globally, prompting industry leaders to innovate for reliability, resiliency, and affordability in future grid designs. The deployment of 765 kV ...

The GW Ranch project in Texas will power a data center using on-site natural gas and solar plants. Companies including Meta, OpenAI and Oracle are developing private gas-powered plants. Researchers ...

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 ...

How a new startup plans to power satellites with lasers. A new class of ultrafast AI chips also uses lasers. Startup Axiomatic AI is building better AI models for science and engineering–which I’m ...

Google says its Minnesota AI data center will add clean energy to the grid and protect ratepayers. Experts question whether ...

When Henry David Thoreau famously retreated to a tiny cabin in Massachusetts’s Walden Pond in 1845, it was because he wanted to live simply and “deliberately” in search of what he called “essential ...

Remaining on-grid made sense for this solo homesteader, but learn how to build an off-grid cabin on a budget to keep those features in a small cabin. In terms of home energy systems, “off-grid” and ...

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 ...