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Microsoft introduces GridSFM, a small foundation model for solving AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problems in transmission power grids. This follows our earlier release of a U.S.-based open ...

Microsoft Research is excited to release an open dataset of approximate transmission topology of the U.S. power grid derived from publicly available data. The ability to study transmission-level power ...

What inspires someone to open a hotel in remote Mexico? Certainly not the assumption that it will be easy. (Playa Viva) If you scroll Tasman’s Instagram, you’ll come across a reel of an owl. Her name ...

AI’s insatiable demand for power has tech companies hunting for new energy sources — a search that has fueled competition and investment into fusion and fission startups. For many, natural gas is the ...

In a few short years, the technology industry has transformed places like central Ohio, where farmland is giving way to data centers and computer chip factories. In a few short years, the technology ...

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 ...

Northern Iowa men's basketball is off to the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The sixth-seeded Panthers (22-12, 11-9 in MVC) knocked off fifth-seeded Illinois-Chicago (18-15, 12-8) 84-69 in the Missouri Valley ...

No. 9 seed Drake dashed Belmont's NCAA Tournament hopes with a 100-79 win in Friday's first MVC quarterfinal. Despite its 26-5 regular-season record, Belmont likely won't receive an at-large bid.

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 ...

On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released full-year data on how the country generated electricity in 2025. It’s a bit of a good news/bad news situation. The bad news is that ...

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 ...