Month: October 2025

AIEnergy

Duke Energy’s Digital Chief Reveals AI Strategy for Power Grid Modernization

Duke Energy’s chief information officer outlines the company’s measured approach to AI implementation and digital modernization. The energy giant is balancing technological innovation with grid reliability as data centers drive unprecedented electricity demand.

Digital Transformation at Scale

Duke Energy’s chief information officer Richard Donaldson is steering one of America’s largest energy companies through a comprehensive digital and AI transformation, according to recent reports. With nearly twenty-five years at the company and nine months as CIO, Donaldson leads technology strategy across Duke’s vast operations spanning generation, transmission and distribution across multiple states.

by Aaron Blake
AIHardware

AMD and Meta Introduce Open Rack Design for Next-Generation AI Computing

Meta has unveiled an open rack specification for AI infrastructure at the OCP Global Summit, with AMD’s Helios system demonstrating how it harnesses MI400 Series GPUs. The collaboration aims to provide scalable, high-performance computing solutions without proprietary lock-in, supporting trillion-parameter AI models efficiently.

Open Standards Drive AI Infrastructure Innovation

At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, Meta introduced specifications for an open rack architecture designed to enhance artificial intelligence systems, according to reports. The Open Rack Wide (ORW) design, based on open standards, serves as the foundation for AMD’s Helios rack-scale reference system, which aims to improve scalability and efficiency in large-scale AI data centers.

by Aaron Blake