Edison Electric Institute announces AI focus at upcoming conference

The Edison Electric Institute’s annual conference in Las Vegas June 18-20 includes an opening keynote from Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of advanced chipmaker NVIDIA.

“Under Jensen’s leadership, NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing and is now driving the platform shift of accelerated computing and generative AI,” EEI said in a June 6 release.

“Electricity is growing at a faster rate today than at any point in the past three decades to help power the rapid growth of AI technologies...