Emerald AI Becomes Full Member of EPRI’s DCFlex Initiative

Emerald AI announced on November 2, 2026 that it is joining EPRI’s DCFlex Initiative as a full member, extending a collaboration that has included six demonstrations of AI data-center flexibility with NVIDIA, utilities, grid operators and data-center partners. Emerald AI said its relationship with EPRI dates to the company’s founding in November 2024, the same fall DCFlex launched.

The demonstrations have involved Salt River Project, Oracle, ComEd, PJM Interconnection, Constellation, Dominion Energy, Portland General Electric, National Grid and Nebius. According to the company, NVIDIA participated in each one, while Emerald Conductor coordinated AI workloads in response to grid needs. EPRI President and CEO Arshad Mansoor welcomed Emerald AI as a full member. He said the field demonstrations were intended to inform a framework for putting data-center energy-use flexibility into operation while supporting grid stability and AI-driven growth.

Emerald AI describes its approach as allowing data centers to adjust electricity consumption during limited periods of grid stress while protecting the performance of critical computing workloads. The company said applying that flexibility broadly could unlock up to 100 GW of capacity on…