Somewhere in central Ohio, a half-built data center campus sits on 200 acres of freshly graded land, its concrete pads poured and its fiber backbone lit. What it does not have is electricity. The ...

AI data center growth is intensifying shortages of transformers across the U.S. power grid. Lead times for some high-voltage transformers have stretched from one year to more than three years. U.S.

Grid operators, utilities, and project developers are facing several enormous demands at once. They’re being asked to deliver capacity for a wave of new load from data centers, electric vehicle (EV) ...

There is now broad consensus across the U.S. power sector that grid modernization is urgent. The challenge is no longer how to generate clean energy, but how to deliver it. By the end of 2023, roughly ...

It’s no secret that the electrical grid is aging, but one part stands out from the rest. Transformers haven’t changed much since Thomas Edison made his first light bulb. Now, a string of startups are ...

Researchers have developed a CNN-BiLSTM-Attention hybrid neural network optimized by an improved antlion algorithm that ...

Transformers have been the backbone of power grids for over a century, but today’s demands for renewable energy, electric vehicles, and smarter grids are exposing their limits. Enter solid-state ...

The iron-core transformer is the 140-year-old technology that props up both the electrical grid and AI companies. The devices are clunky but reliable, which explains why they’re still in use: If it ...

A utility in Virginia recently told a data-center developer that the high-power transformer needed to energize its planned campus would not arrive for five years. The developer had budgeted for ...