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As data-center demand grows, Sandia advances AI controls to keep voltage steady in real time
July 1, 2026 • As artificial intelligence drives rapid growth in data centers, utilities are facing a new challenge: keeping voltage steady as electricity demand grows, shifts quickly and becomes harder to predict. As demand grows and more distributed energy resources such as batteries, rooftop
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Record-breaking, ultrafast devices step to protecting the grid from EMPs
March 15, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have announced a tiny, electronic device that can shunt excess electricity within a few billionths of a second while operating at a record-breaking 6,400 volts — a significant step towards protecting the nation’s electric grid from an electromagnetic pulse. The team published...
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Foreground: Two men, one passing a nickel-sized wafer. Background: A device for testing the diodes on the wafer and a computer screen showing an array of dots/diodes