EPRI’s Open Power AI Consortium plans to fuel grid modernization with data sharing

Power system modernization with artificial intelligence, or AI, is being slowed by a lack of access to system data for AI training, tech and power sector experts agree.

“Data is AI’s oil, gas, wind and solar all wrapped into one,” Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO of tech market leader Scale AI, told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce April 9. “Every major AI advancement is grounded in data shaped by human expertise,” and “to win on AI, we must turn our data asset into an advantage.”

Utilities want to win with AI, too, power system executives and analysts agree.

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