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NiSource announces strategic energy infrastructure agreements in Indiana
NiSource has committed to a new long-term energy agreement with a subsidiary of Alphabet to support development and operation of a large-scale data center in northern Indiana while providing benefits to customers and communities.
This marks the second major agreement leveraging NiSource’ s NIPSCO Generation LLC GenCo model, designed to deliver value to existing customers while attracting economic development to Indiana.
“ Our strategy focuses on protecting customers from projectrelated cost increases while supporting responsible growth and reliable energy solutions,” said NiSource CEO Lloyd Yates.
Service for Alphabet is expected to begin in summer 2026, with capacity supplied through a GenCo-owned portfolio and market purchases, enhancing transmission, reliability and resilience.
NiSource also expanded its agreement with Amazon Data Services, accelerating site energization and residential bill credits.
The GenCo model is expected to deliver about $ 1.25 billion in customer savings – roughly $ 90- $ 115 annually per household.
Additionally, NiSource will contribute $ 17 million to community funds supporting hosting areas.
Generation assets totaling about 340 MW, plus up to 175 MW in seasonal purchases, will meet demand.
Advanced batteries and market resources will improve speed to market and system benefits.
Yates said the initiative builds on prior savings commitments, strengthens stakeholder collaboration and positions NiSource as a leader in the utility sector, while reinforcing long-term infrastructure investment, supporting digital growth, improving grid flexibility, enabling scalable capacity and aligning with evolving energy demand across the region.
Quantum Computing Inc. unveils deploymentready NeuraWave for real-time AI at the edge
Quantum Computing Inc.( QCi) says NeuraWave, its nextgeneration photonic reservoir computing platform, is now deployment-ready.
NeuraWave is designed to enable faster, energy-efficient AI inference and advanced signal processing applications at the edge.
NeuraWave uses hybrid photonic-digital computing, delivering real-time AI inference with ultra-low latency and significantly reduced power. NeuraWave is designed to support a wide range of applications, including time-series prediction, anomaly detection and edge intelligence, enabling a new class of edge AI capabilities and providing actionable insights in time-sensitive and resourceconstrained environments.
Unlike traditional GPU-based architectures, NeuraWave provides a scalable, hardware-accelerated alternative optimised for edge and embedded deployment. Its architecture is designed to enable high-performance inference at low power, opening new possibilities in markets such as defence, telecommunications, autonomous vehicles, robotics, healthcare and industrial monitoring.
“ This marks an important step forward for photonic computing, bringing it out of the laboratory and into the hands of users that require real-time and energy-efficient AI inference,” said Dr. Yong Meng Sua, Chief Technology Officer, QCi.
“ NeuraWave demonstrates how our photonic approach can move beyond research and into practical AI and machine learning systems.”
“ With the form factor of a standard server PCIe plug-in card, NeuraWave brings photonic computing to AI at the edge. By processing data with light instead of electrons, we’ re creating a fundamentally different approach to real-time analysis, one that has the potential to unlock capabilities beyond what traditional electronic chips can achieve,” said Prajnesh Kumar, Quantum Technology Lead, QCi. •
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