It’s hard not to see recent news items about the high demand to build data centers to enable the AI revolution. And providing electricity to these data centers is a massive challenge for the power generation sector, which must build additional generation capacity.

In a POWER Magazine article and podcast, Emerson Addresses Power Industry’s AI-Driven Demand Surge, Emerson’s Seth Harris joins Executive Editor Aaron Larson to discuss these challenges and the role of automation and AI-enabled technologies to help address these challenges.

Give the podcast a listen, and follow the links below to learn more about the technologies that can support the necessary growth.

As Seth Harris shares in the podcast, the surge in AI-driven data center demand is pushing the power industry to innovate rapidly. Emerson is helping operators boost efficiency and reliability with solutions like radar technology from the Rosemount business, Fisher control valves with DVC digital valve controllers, and advanced Ovation control systems.

Customers are retrofitting older plants with new technologies—everything from Coriolis metering and non-obtrusive ultrasonic flow measurement to pressure transmitters, the Ovation 4.0 platform, Ovation Green SCADA, the AspenTech Digital Grid Management suite, and AMS asset management tools to improve reliability and asset health.

These technologies enable tighter control, smarter diagnostics, and predictive maintenance, driving reliability and seamless integration across traditional and next-generation assets to help the industry meet today’s challenges and prepare for the future.