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While artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the way America does business, the number of data centers being built to meet its expanding computational demands has kicked off a construction boom.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."--President Dwight D. Eisenhower (April 16, 1953)
It has long been acknowledged that the United States' energy infrastructure isn't particularly secure, a concern exacerbated by the lack of a central planning process for our nation's piecemeal electric grid.
It seems that on a daily basis we get more bad news coming out of the Trump administration indicating that this administration is as committed to implementing a control grid as the previous administration.
Just over 30 years ago, billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith offered a sobering prediction over the deleterious effects of gobalization - which Goldsmith argued would hollow out the industrial base of Western nations and devastate the middle and
It's the latest shake up for the NPS.
"Volt Typhoon" is the name assigned by U.S. cybersecurity officials to a state-sponsored cyber operation linked to the Chinese Communist Party that has quietly penetrated critical infrastructure networks across the U.S., apparently with the aim of un
The authors of a new U.S. infrastructure report gave the U.S. a C grade. They have advice for how to improve it.
Northeastern states import massive amounts of electricity from Canada while strangling domestic energy production with regulations.
Steven Starr is an expert knowledgeable about high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP). His analysis leads him to the conclusion that an opponent doesn't need large numbers of nuclear weapons to destroy the United States. Three will suffice.
As the United States stands on the brink of a new era of potential industrial growth, one critical component is still a giant question mark: the electrical grid.
As the United States stands on the brink of a new era of potential industrial growth, one critical component is still a giant question mark: the electrical grid.
Many of us have experienced a power outage at one time or another. Most of the time the duration of the outage is measured in hours, maybe a day, and in rare instances – a week or more.
Signs that we were once a truly great nation are all around us. Previous generations of Americans handed us the keys to the most magnificent domestic infrastructure that the world had ever seen, but now it is literally falling apart all around us.
A private-public partnership has paved a section of Minnesota road with an experimental low-carbon concrete mixture that resulted in greater strength and lesser cement use, saving money and carbon.
The grid is not only mechanically and electrically complicated; it's financially complicated, too. We don't really participate in all that complexity - we just pay our bill at the end of every month. But it does affect us in big ways, so I think
America's Power Grid Adds Most Generating Capacity In 21 Years As AI Data Center Demand Surges
After four years of construction, work is nearing completion on North America's longest cable-stayed bridge.
On Saturday morning, the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WY DOT) shared a Facebook post from Governor Mark Gordon. x
If our nation suffers another terrorist attack, it will be hard to argue that the signs weren't there for us to see.
Powerful storms tore through eastern Texas on Thursday evening, decimating transmission towers and plunging over a million residents into darkness.
Following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, a team made up of Carlo Ratti Associati, along with construction firm Webuild and structural engineer Michel Virlogeux, has proposed a new – and safer – replacement.
The government may soon be able to shut down your car. Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill includes a kill switch for new cars.
Welcome to the Chimney Hollow Dam Project, located an hour outside Denver, CO.
Motiva's Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex in Port Arthur, Texas, the largest refinery in North America, with a capacity of 630,000 barrels of crude oil per day, shuttered several processing units on Wednesday following a power failure due to severe
