transformer

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

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

The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures and did not injure anyone, the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

I have a brief vision of the semi sliding across the intersection into that pole, the showers of sparks from the damaged transformer.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Depending on the size of the site, you may also hear the thrum of transformers in substations channelling electricity.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 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

TensorWave plans to use the fresh round of capital to scale up its operations by adding more data centers and buying generators, chillers, critical power-supply gear, transformers and other equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

More persistent was the sharp smell of the circulating oil that cooled the big magnet and its electrical transformers.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik