Powering AI

August 2025
The Future of Powering AI: Redefining Power Flow from Grid-to-Core in Data Centers

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Figure 1: Ever-increasing server rack power consumption

­A recent tweet[1] by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, suggested that being polite in your chats to ChatGPT costs the company tens of millions of dollars due to the additional computational load to process unnecessary words such as “please” and “thank you”. While this set off a range of opinions on the
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Date:
08/30/2025
Mouser Provides Design Engineers with Digital Defense Knowledge in New Security Resource Center

Mouser Provides Design Engineers with Digital Defense Knowledge in New Security Resource Center

­Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry's leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components™, equips electronic design engineers with the latest cybersecurity and product knowledge in its comprehensive security resource center. As technology advance
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Date:
08/29/2025
Texas A&M Researchers Map America’s Power Outage Hot Spots Using AI

Researchers at Texas A&M University have created a Nationwide Power System Vulnerability Index that assigns individual counties a rating based on their likelihood of being affected by power outages.

­Hurricane Beryl, Winter Storm Uri and other severe weather events have increased long-term power outages for Texas residents in recent years. But this issue does not just affect Texans.  Researchers from the Urban Resilience AI Lab at Texas A&M University have used machine learning to create
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Date:
08/14/2025
Arrow Electronics Unveils World's First Development Kit Featuring Production Silicon Altera Agilex 5 FPGA

Arrow Electronics Unveils World's First Development Kit Featuring Production Silicon Altera Agilex 5 FPGA

­Arrow Electronics, a global technology solutions provider, has announced the availability of its new FPGA development platform, the AXE5000 starter kit, featuring the world's first production silicon Altera Agilex™ 5 FPGA. This release provides engineers with an opportunity to evaluate and develop des
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Date:
08/12/2025