The paper introduces an autonomous planning framework for electricity systems that iteratively proposes, evaluates, and refines investment and operational decisions across regional scenarios. Agents generate investment bounds, storage conditions, and feeder interventions, interpret numerical feedback, and decide when to stop, automatically running annual investment-and-dispatch optimization and feeder verification. The framework was tested on forty carbon‑constrained trajectories across five systems and four countries, successfully retaining low‑cost candidates that meet physical and carbon‑budget constraints, with 28 of 40 matching or exceeding reference designs.
arXiv:2608. 12363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: European countries are debating policies to mitigate the increased energy costs caused by renewed geopolitical tensions, while pursuing decarbonization and electrification.
arXiv:2606. 14707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI training and deployment consume substantial electricity, but carbon outcomes remain weakly integrated into routine model development decisions.
arXiv:2606. 00811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data centers now account for 4.
The paper introduces a multi-objective reinforcement learning framework for planning AI data center build-outs, treating the long-term infrastructure decisions as a tiered Markov decision process. It proposes a preference-conditioned agent that can generate policies balancing cost, carbon, water, and reliability, and validates the approach on real site data across different commitment regimes. The study also presents a lightweight counterfactual rollout model to assess long-horizon dynamics and releases the associated environment, agents, and evaluation tools.
arXiv:2607. 18272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prosumers equipped with distributed generation and flexible loads form autonomous cyber-physical energy systems that control local resources and participate in local energy markets with minimal human intervention.
The paper reviews 194 papers on using artificial intelligence to optimize data center energy use, coding 63 of them. It finds that most control studies validate only in simulation, none consider water withdrawal or embodied carbon, and savings estimates overlap across methods, preventing ranking. The authors propose CLEAR‑DC, a framework that links control and workload demand through elasticity, reports net benefits, and records energy, carbon, water, embodied share, and validation venue.
arXiv:2606. 09617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid expansion of AI globally has led to the proliferation of energy-intensive hyperscale data centres (DCs), making them as a structurally challenging component in power system planning and operation.
CityLearn v3 is a configurable simulation and evaluation framework designed for realistic control studies of renewable energy communities (RECs). It models dynamic participation, equipment availability, service deadlines, and data quality, allowing for flexible-load deadlines, demand-response requests, local energy sharing, and failure scenarios within a single environment. The framework records controller inputs, distinguishes requested actions from applied ones, and provides reference controllers, performance indicators, and trajectory exports for comprehensive comparisons across communities.
arXiv:2603. 26678v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI and renewable energy are increasingly framed as a "power couple," on the premise that surging AI demand will accelerate clean-energy investment, yet concerns persist that AI will entrench fossil-fuel carbon lock-in.
arXiv:2607. 26710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of AI workloads is turning data centers into large-scale, volatile, yet spatiotemporally flexible grid loads, creating an urgent need for coordinated electricity-computing scheduling.
The rapid growth of AI workloads is turning data centers into large-scale, volatile, yet spatiotemporally flexible grid loads, creating an urgent need for coordinated electricity-computing scheduling. Under stringent grid constraints, schedules from general-purpose large language models (LLMs) are often infeasible, causing line-flow violations and unserved load.
arXiv:2608. 12915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of LLM inference is shifting sustainability concerns from one-time training to continuous serving, where infrastructure decisions shape energy use, carbon emissions, water consumption, and service quality.