Professor Dharik Mallapragada explains why AI companies, unlike utilities, aren't deterred by the high cost of long-duration energy storage technologies like compressed air and iron-air batteries. #NYUTandonMade

Data Centers Embrace Weird, New Energy StorageRusting batteries, giant balloons, underground caverns. An oddball mix of technologies is being deployed to shore up the grid as AI power demand soars. But can they break into the mainstream?buff.ly