The Department of Energy (DOE) on Monday announced two new AMD-accelerated artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee as part of a public-private partnership with AMD and HPE. […]
NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced on Tuesday that the company will build seven new supercomputers powered by artificial intelligence (AI) for the Department of Energy (DOE). […]
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to initiate rulemaking procedures with a proposed rule to accelerate the interconnection of large electric loads, including data centers, to help the United States lead in AI innovation. […]
The Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking bids to build an artificial intelligence (AI) data center and supporting energy infrastructure at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. […]
The Department of Energy (DOE) is aiming to have commercial fusion energy hit the nation’s power grid within the next decade, according to its new Fusion Science and Technology (FS&T) Roadmap. […]
The Energy Department (DOE) kicked off a new initiative on Sept. 18 to accelerate power supply for artificial intelligence and data centers to address a limited energy supply and rapidly expanding demand. […]
The Senate on Thursday confirmed two key Department of Energy (DOE) nominees, approving Darío Gil as undersecretary for science and innovation and Conner Prochaska as director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). […]
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) will be using artificial intelligence tools to accelerate its development of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) that will help power AI data centers autonomously. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) has selected four sites – including two at national laboratories – to build artificial intelligence data centers and energy infrastructure called for earlier this year by the Trump administration. […]
Half of all new American electric power will be consumed by artificial intelligence data centers by 2030, according to the Department of Energy (DoE), which warned in a report out Monday that the nation is facing an energy disaster unless it adopts innovative methods of power generation. […]
The Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) component has appointed Ross Graber chief information security officer (CISO), according to an internal agency announcement viewed by MeriTalk. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) will have at least three small modular reactors (SMRs) running by July of next year, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Congress on Wednesday – announcing a significant step forward for next-generation nuclear energy. […]
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has officially launched its fifth enterprise-wide cloud environment, marking a significant step toward operational efficiency and reduced costs. […]
The next high-powered supercomputer is coming to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) under a new contract between the Department of Energy (DoE), Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA. […]
Conner Prochaska, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy, told lawmakers on Wednesday that, if confirmed, he will work to advance energy and critical technologies. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) is moving its chief of staff, Alex Fitzsimmons, to head the agency’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER). […]
Ross Graber has resigned as the chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Energy (DoE), knowledgeable sources confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) is headed into uncharted territory in its latest efforts in quantum tech – it’s headed to space in collaboration with a growing list of Federal agencies and goals, a top agency official said on Wednesday. […]
Darío Gil, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next Energy Department Undersecretary for Science and Innovation, told lawmakers on April 10 that the United States must win the race to build a quantum supercomputer by the end of the decade. […]
The Trump administration has identified 16 sites on land owned by the Department of Energy (DoE) that would be suitable to build artificial intelligence data centers, and is calling for input about industry’s interest in operating on those sites. […]
Puesh Kumar stepped down as director of the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) on Wednesday. […]
The ongoing shift to zero trust security frameworks is reshaping cybersecurity strategies across Federal agencies, but for Sandia National Laboratories – one of the 17 national labs overseen by the Department of Energy (DoE) – the adoption of continuous verification standards is as much about user experience as it is security. […]
The Department of Energy (DoE) is tapping Ross Graber – a security technology veteran with stints at Twitter and Google – to become the agency’s next chief information officer, knowledgeable sources told MeriTalk. […]
Ryan Riedel, who was named chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Energy (DoE) in early February, has stepped down from that position and returned to Elon Musk’s SpaceX where he has held senior technology roles since 2020, a knowledgeable source told MeriTalk. […]
The Department of Energy’s National Laboratories are getting a boost from artificial intelligence systems following the announcement of a collaboration between AI company OpenAI and the nation’s leading scientific research labs. […]
The chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories shared on Wednesday how the organization is utilizing ServiceNow to cut costs and drive efficiencies through a new idea portal and workflows. […]
Ryan Riedel – a veteran of Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm and a former techie at the U.S. Cyber Command – started work on Friday as the new chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Energy (DoE), according to sources with knowledge of the agency’s actions. […]
President-elect Trump announced on Jan. 16 that he will nominate Darío Gil, senior vice president at IBM Research, to become the Department of Energy’s undersecretary for science and innovation. […]
The Senate held a pre-nomination hearing on Wednesday for Chris Wright – Trump’s nominee for Department of Energy secretary – in which Wright outlined his plans for expanding nuclear energy technology, AI development, and quantum technology. […]
The Office of the National Cyber Director’s (ONCD) newly minted plan to defend against cyber threats across the energy sector is charging the Energy Department to take the lead in executing 32 key initiatives. […]