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TechCrunch Disrupt panelists argued the AI data center boom could accelerate US grid modernization, highlighting load-management software from WeaveGrid and superconducting power lines from Veir, which recently raised $110M Series C to serve AI data centers.
MIT Technology Review reports on solid-state transformers, which combine magnetic components with high-power semiconductors to modernize the century-old grid and help meet surging electricity demand from AI data centers, EVs, and renewables.
This paper introduces a lightweight multimodal LLM-based framework for cost-effective defect grading of power transmission equipment, using in-context learning and chain-of-thought to generate training data and fine-tuning Qwen3-VL-8B for state-of-the-art performance.