AI’s growing power demands and grid instability are turning electricity from a background utility into a strategic risk that directly threatens uptime, security, and business continuity.Ann Dunkin, a four-time enterprise CIO, including the U.S. Department of Energy and EPA, and Distinguished Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, outlined how energy reliability now belongs on the CIO agenda alongside cybersecurity and operational resilience. She called for elevating energy into strategic risk registers, sharing ownership across teams, and rethinking data center placement by moving data to where reliable power already exists.

In the mid-1990s, a Department of Energy-funded project helped catalyze one of the most transformative breakthroughs in American energy history: the development of a horizontal drilling bit capable of withstanding the extreme conditions of shale formations. 

Before this innovation, natural gas trapped in tight shale rock was considered too expensive and technically challenging to extract. 

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Stuck in traffic on your way to work? Georgia Tech researchers say the answer to gridlock may one day come from the skies.

Inside a brand-new prototyping lab, students are working with NASA to convert airplanes into electric aircraft. The idea is to create a new kind of "air taxi," quiet, battery-powered, and designed to fly over the city much like a helicopter.

"This is an airplane that we are converting into an electric aircraft in a major partnership with NASA," said Brian German, a Georgia Tech aerospace engineering professor. "So you might be able to fly from Midtown Atlanta down to the airport — fly over traffic, similar to a helicopter."