Powering Resilience: Building a Stronger Future for Critical Infrastructure
From hurricanes and heat waves to cyber threats and grid strain, Houston faces growing challenges that threaten essential services. At a roundtable hosted by the Houston Business Journal and Enchanted Rock, leaders from healthcare, utilities, transportation, and manufacturing shared how they’re preparing for what’s next.
Enchanted Rock Introduces ERT500™ and RockBlock™ Advanced Onsite Power Generation Technologies
The new ERT500™ generator and RockBlock™ backup power solutions from Enchanted Rock are engineered to deliver reliable, ultra-low-emission onsite power for data centers, healthcare facilities, and other critical infrastructure. With diesel-like transient response, modular scalability, and advanced monitoring, these systems maximize uptime while meeting the strictest air quality standards.
How is the energy industry navigating data centers, tariffs and federal policy changes?
Houston Business Journal’s Energy in Business panel brought together leaders from across the sector to discuss the impacts of tariffs, policy shifts, and rising data center demand on natural gas, infrastructure, and the energy transition. Joel Yu of Enchanted Rock highlighted both the risks and opportunities of rapid demand growth, stressing the need for policy support and infrastructure investment to keep pace with change.
Blackout Fears Arise As Trump’s Data Center Push Hits Already Strained Grid
A wave of artificial intelligence data center development is raising concerns about an electricity reliability crisis for the nation’s largest power grid. But with this surge of planned data centers, industry experts question whether the power grid serving this region can handle the tsunami of new development headed its way without significantly increasing the risk of blackouts.
The AI data center boom won’t bust, but it will pause
An AI data center bust is unlikely in the near future, but the boom is experiencing a brief slowdown. Tech companies are using this pause to reassess their strategies and plan for more sustainable development.
Green Hydrogen Shows Promise for AI Power, But Challenges Remain
The extensive computing power and complex algorithms needed to train AI — not to mention the cooling systems needed to keep data centers running — entail significant electrical consumption. As a result, tech giants like Microsoft are looking for ways to reduce reliance on strained electric grids. Green hydrogen could be the next big thing.
Enchanted Rock Microgrids Offer Backup Power and Grid Support
Sometime, somewhere, the power is going to go out. Maybe for a few minutes or a few hours. Starting with Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, most Texans have endured a blackout longer than a day. Outages of that length aren’t just inconvenient. They’re expensive, destructive and life-threatening. Texas energy provider Enchanted Rock helps to mitigate the aftershocks of grid failure.
The AI energy challenge: Rethinking power for the next generation
There’s a paradox that AI can transform so much of what we do, including how we can approve efficiencies in energy creation and distribution, yet AI’s energy demand is voracious. The industry must adapt, balancing rising power demands with sustainability and grid stability.
Rethinking our approach to the data center power-supply challenge
The repercussions of the AI revolution are far-reaching. With much of the focus centered around the data center energy demands that are pushing our grid infrastructure to new limits, there’s an urgent need for strategic energy planning to offset the rise of AI applications.
Enchanted Rock Named One of Houston Business Journal’s Best Workplaces
A boom in renewable microgrids is helping cities across the country keep the power on. Microgrids can be connected to the larger grid to share and distribute power, but by definition they’re self-sustaining, at least for a certain amount of time. As their popularity grows, sustainability has become an increasingly appealing option for new microgrids, which are “essential building blocks” for a resilient energy system.