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DISCOVERY · 2026-10-02

Amazon’s Built Together puts a new promise to data-center communities on the record. ↗

Amazon announced more than $1 billion over five years for U.S. data-center communities on October 2. Its Built Together framework covers education and workforce pathways, energy and water solutions, and locally chosen priorities. Rollout is planned; benefits delivered to residents remain to be verified.

Emerging · Amazon / Amazon Web Services
DISCOVERY · 2026-10-01

Japan’s planned 400 MW AI campus puts power access first. ↗

JERA, Dell and RHAELM signed an October 1 memorandum to coordinate power and AI infrastructure in Japan. Their first planned Chiba project would have power capacity of up to 400 MW. The campus is a development plan; commissioned computing capacity and customer outcomes are still ahead.

Emerging · JERA / Dell Technologies / RHAELM / Apollo Global Management
DISCOVERY · 2026-09-23

Maryland makes data-center commitments public. ↗

Maryland ordered project ratings and monthly public power-and-water disclosure for certain data-center proposals of at least 25 megawatts that seek discretionary state engagement.

Emerging · State of Maryland / Office of Governor Wes Moore
DISCOVERY · 2026-09-17

Two weeks of grid preparation, reduced to hours. ↗

Duke Energy says an AWS agentic workflow reduced data preparation for interconnection studies from two weeks of manual work to hours by coordinating existing models and scripts.

Deployed · Duke Energy / Amazon Web Services / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
DISCOVERY · 2026-05-27

Pennsylvania defined conditions for state-supported data-center projects. ↗

Pennsylvania’s May 2026 GRID standards make investment, workforce, energy, water and community commitments conditions of Commonwealth support; the thresholds are commitments, not jobs or savings already delivered.

Emerging · Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development / Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
DISCOVERY · 2026-05-07

Finding more workable grid plans ↗

Google DeepMind reported that AlphaEvolve improved a trained graph neural network's ability to find feasible solutions to the AC Optimal Power Flow problem from 14% to more than 88%.

Demonstrated · Google DeepMind / Google Research
DISCOVERY · 2025-10-28

What if compute could make room for the grid? ↗

NVIDIA’s DSX announcement describes integrating Emerald AI’s power-flexibility reference design with a digital twin for AI infrastructure.

Emerging · Emerald AI / NVIDIA
DISCOVERY · 2025-10-16

Rehearsing a fusion pulse before it happens ↗

Google DeepMind and Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced a partnership in which CFS uses the open-source TORAX plasma simulator in daily workflows to test and refine SPARC operating plans before the tokamak is turned on.

Emerging · Google DeepMind / Commonwealth Fusion Systems
DISCOVERY · 2025-07-09

Ohio put large new computing loads on a longer power contract. ↗

An AEP Ohio tariff effective July 23, 2025 requires a load study for new or expanding data-center requests of at least 25 megawatts and creates minimum-demand, collateral and cancellation obligations.

Deployed · Public Utilities Commission of Ohio / AEP Ohio
DISCOVERY · 2025-05-14

Making room in a data center ↗

Google DeepMind reported that an AlphaEvolve-discovered scheduling heuristic had been in production for more than a year and continuously recovered an average 0.7% of Google's worldwide compute resources.

Deployed · Google DeepMind / Google
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