Could Nvidia become an AI power broker on the grid?

The head of Nvidia’s energy industry practice, explains the company’s strategy to make artificial intelligence useful to utilities.

Stephen Lacey The Latitude

March 22, 2024

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There are two critical ingredients fueling the AI boom: energy and chips.

And Nvidia, one of the most important companies in AI, is looking to be a power player in both.

Nvidia was founded in the early 1990s as a chip maker for gaming. It has since evolved into a $2 trillion behemoth building the most sought-after graphics processing units for training AI.

Now, the company is making moves to deploy its technology in equipment at the edge of the grid — and looking to build a framework for deploying AI inside utility operations.

Could the power sector get an upgrade from a critical AI power broker?

In this edition: Editor Lisa Martine Jenkins presents her own story from the pages of Latitude Media on how NVIDIA is looking to spread AI across the grid.

Stephen Lacey

Stephen Lacey is the co-founder and executive editor of Latitude Media and the co-host of Open Circuit. He’s a veteran journalist, editor and producer who’s been making audio programming about climate change for a decade and a half.