Our nation’s economy, security, and the health and safety of our citizens depend on the reliable delivery of electricity. The power system in the United States consists of more than 7,300 power plants ...

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...

Energy costs must really be getting to Google. In addition to its recently announced forays into geothermal energy and floating data centers, it’s also partnering with General Electric Co. to work on ...

Cloud computing is the use of remote servers to store data and deliver related computing services to large numbers of users. Self-driving vehicles "have the capacity to be connected to a larger grid ...

Cloud computing supports cybersecurity, helps maintain operational resilience, and provides robust backup capabilities.

Grid computing, which had already caught the attention of IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., is now being targeted by another major hardware vendor: Compaq Computer Corp. The three server rivals this ...

California’s biggest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), has revealed a new $73 billion spending program to ...

Fueled by a surge in artificial intelligence and cloud computing demand, North America's data center market continued its ...