Ars Technica

Microsoft, Atom Computing update their quantum computing progress

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...
Scientific American

Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...
POWER Magazine

Data Centers and the Grid: How Hyperscale Computing Is Reshaping Power Infrastructure

A power paradox is emerging in the hyperscale era: while computing demand is accelerating, power availability is increasingly becoming the constraint that determines where data centers are built, how ...
E&E

AI power demand creates ‘high likelihood, high impact’ grid risks

North America’s electric grid watchdog is acting with urgency to guard against widespread power outages stemming from the volatile energy demand of data centers. The North American Electric ...
Reuters

US utilities scale up grid-boosting tech to meet surging demand

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

A New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once

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 ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

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 ...
Business Wire

Infleqtion Advances ARPA-E Quantum Computing Grid Optimization Program

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infleqtion, a global leader in quantum computing and quantum sensing, today announced it has executed its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research ...
Reuters

Power grid delays challenge Amazon's data center expansion in Europe

BRUSSELS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Long delays to get power grid connections are challenging Amazon's (AMZN.O), opens new tab plans to expand data centers in Europe, the company told Reuters, as industries ...
The New York Times

Grids Are Surviving the Storm. But the Next 5 Years Could Be Rough.

A group that monitors the U.S. electricity system warns that grid reliability is “worsening” and blackout risks are rising for millions of people. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington The ...
The Motley Fool

Move Over, IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum -- There's a Much Smarter Way to Invest in the Quantum Computing Revolution

Shares of IonQ, Rigetti Computing, D-Wave Quantum, and Quantum Computing Inc. have surged by up to 2,720% over the trailing year. Though quantum computing pure-play stocks are popular among investors, ...