transformer
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In Davis, Calif., the transformer on my block repeatedly blew up during heat waves, leaving us sweltering, sometimes for days at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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
Noam Shazeer, the Character.AI co-founder and co-author of the famous 2017 transformer paper that led to the current AI revolution, recently left for OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Videos posted to social media appeared to show a plume of smoke rising from the stricken transformer.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
With a swift wing beat she alighted above a transformer on an electric utility pole.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
"Anything to do with the electricity network – the power lines, the interconnectors and transformers – they all struggle to keep themselves cool enough," explains Iain Staffell at Imperial College London.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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
“We can’t see the chicks, we can’t follow the falcon—” “There are some transformers up the valley, where our falcon went,” said Molly.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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