transformer
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Rasuwagadhi’s acting chief executive, Pushkar Amatya, deployed crews and equipment in a last-ditch search for people who might be trapped in the facility’s transformer cavern, but found no one there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
A major turning point for Hugging Face came in 2018, when Google released a new version of its transformer, the neural network technology at the heart of modern generative AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The company announced last year it was working on a new utility-scale transformer designed to handle data-center electric loads more efficiently.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
And in the town of Ergué-Gabéric, in Brittany, the punishing temperatures - around 40C - were too much for one electric transformer.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
A geyser of sparks erupts deep within a house—an electrical transformer or hoarded fuel or maybe a delayed-action bomb—and it looks to him as if lightning lashes the town from within.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The 33-year-old’s rounds include sniffing for burning equipment that could indicate overheating, feeling tubes for cracks and looking for faulty lighting or broken power transformers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Thomas Murphy, vice president for Power & Construction Group, an electrical-infrastructure contractor near Rochester, N.Y., said prices for transformers are up about 70% in the past five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
China already dominates the global market, as Cohen writes, in “wind turbines, high-voltage cables, transformers, solar panels, batteries, software to manage energy flows and more.”
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
National Grid said the work involved constructing two new substations, installing transformers as well as laying 2km of underground cables.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Reflecting Lawrence’s lack of conceit when it came to engineering, the machine incorporated the latest innovations of cyclotroneers across the country in designs for transformers, power transmission, the oscillator, and the ion source.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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