Energy Regulators Race to Harness AI to Ease Power Grid Strain

Artificial intelligence can be utilized to improve the power grid and more quickly bring new electric generation online, easing some of the strain from the energy-intensive technology, US energy officials said Wednesday.

“We need near-term ways of identifying where that growth is happening,” said Helena Fu, director of the Energy Department’s Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies, which the agency established in December. “At DOE, we have a vested interest both in the energy consumption piece of it, but also in enabling a frontier capability.”

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is working on a congressionally mandated report on data center energy ...