Energy
Public-private partnerships need more ‘efficiency,’ Energy official says
The agency’s national labs can offer high performance computing capabilities for artificial intelligence innovation, several leaders noted, but it requires an expedited negotiation process.
Energy, NVIDIA and Dell unveil new planned supercomputer
The latest public-private sector collaboration brings the new Doudna supercomputer to Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California to pursue advancements across emerging tech and scientific fields.
Energy selects 16 sites for AI data center construction, new energy development
The Department of Energy identified 16 locations on its own land to build the new infrastructure.
Energy appoints Twitter, Google and DOGE alum as new CIO
Ross Graber most recently supported the nascent Department of Government Efficiency’s work at the State Department, a State Department official told Nextgov/FCW.
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Energy CIO departs after short tenure
Ryan Riedel, formerly of SpaceX, served in the role for less than two months.
Employees helming the U.S. nuclear stockpile among those terminated
Probational employees at Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration were fired on Thursday as concerns over DOGE access to sensitive information mounts.
Trump taps IBM’s Darío Gil for Energy’s undersecretary for science and innovation
Gil previously served on Trump’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology under his first administration.
Biden orders federal land to be leased for AI data center development
The executive action will leverage federally protected lands to develop data centers capable of supporting AI software, with a priority on incorporating clean energy sources.
Agencies look to automation software to usher in next phase of post-quantum security
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is working with select agencies to implement post-quantum cryptography, and will turn to vendors to further secure federal data.
AI has high energy demands but could also speed up energy production, officials say
Artificial intelligence can help speed up the permitting process for new clean energy infrastructure to meet the energy needs of emerging technologies.
NIST sets up new task force on AI and national security
The Testing Risks of AI for National Security Taskforce will bring federal expertise to test artificial intelligence models in critical use cases.
More than a decade later, NIST’s home of the future is still ahead of its time
NIST wanted to show that energy efficiency did not have to make a residence look like a spaceship, or be uncomfortable to live in.
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