About AIxEnergy

Artificial intelligence is becoming an industrial load. Data centers are asking utilities for power on a scale and a timetable that the electricity system was not built for, and the decisions that follow, about generation, transmission, rates, reliability and who pays, are being made in utility commissions, interconnection queues and corporate boardrooms. AIxEnergy was founded in 2023 to follow those decisions closely and to set out the evidence behind them.

The Journal’s subject is the point where AI infrastructure meets the electric system. Policy & Regulation follows federal and state rulemaking, interconnection, rate design and cost allocation. Business & Finance places AI and energy in a wider frame of geopolitics, national policy, corporate strategy and global energy outlooks. Cognitive Grid examines AI as an interpretive and operational layer inside the grid, including governance and delegated judgment, while Shadow Grid follows the parallel system of private power, dedicated generation and hidden interconnections that forms beside the public one.

LoadFlex covers the ability of data center loads to flex with the grid, and Global View looks at how buildouts in the United States, Europe and Asia are reshaping power markets, investment and grid policy. Report Reviews assess the major studies, forecasts and institutional reports that shape the debate, Article Series take a single topic across several parts, and Map Insights draws on the AIxEnergy Map to show where data centers, large loads and grid constraints collide.

AIxEnergy is independent and non-partisan. It does not sell editorial placement or accept paid articles, and if sponsorship is ever introduced it will be clearly labeled.

The Journal publishes analysis rather than news summaries. Claims are sourced, and the house style is to cite sources in numbered notes in the Chicago style, with links and access dates, so that readers can check the evidence for themselves.

Contributors come from industry, research and policy: utility executives and engineers, academics, investors, lawyers and regulators. They are chosen for the quality of their evidence rather than their position, and their views are their own. AI tools are used in research and production, but people check the sources and make every editorial decision.

Errors of fact are corrected promptly, with a note on the article. A reader who finds one can write to bowens@aixenergy.io with “Correction” in the subject line.

The Journal has 12 authors in all. Alongside its editor, eleven contributors from industry, research and policy have written for it. Affiliations are those given in each author’s profile.

The Journal is accompanied by three intelligence products, built to put the same questions to data.

Brandon N. Owens founded AIxEnergy in October 2023 and edits the Journal. He has worked on electricity markets, grid planning and energy technology for more than 25 years, including 14 at GE. He is the author of The Cognitive Grid (December 2025), a book on how authority shifts when AI software begins to shape operating decisions in critical infrastructure.

Article proposals, advisory and speaking inquiries, and corrections can be sent to bowens@aixenergy.io, with “Journal”, “Advisory”, “Speaking” or “Correction” in the subject line. Replies usually come within two business days. To receive new articles, subscribe to the Journal.