voltage
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Data centres have typically been located near to cities where it's easier to access high voltage power lines or water resources for cooling.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
This creates a difference in electrical potential between the upper and lower surfaces of the membrane, producing the observed voltage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
The voltage appeared consistently and repeatedly, providing strong evidence that the diamond membrane itself was producing a piezoelectric response.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Since the early 1900s, diamond has generally been classified as a non-piezoelectric material, meaning it was not expected to generate an electrical voltage when mechanically deformed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Today’s grid loses as much as 8% from power generation to end use, and the upgrade of the grid to higher voltages dramatically reduces energy losses, making the whole grid more economical.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
BelGaN, based in Belgium, specialized in making gallium nitride semiconductors, which allow for higher voltages compared with silicon-based chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Solid-state transformers convert power to different voltages, and go largely unnoticed, attached to telephone poles everywhere.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
The system also charged capacitors to useful voltages within minutes, showing its potential for powering small electronics and wireless sensors.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2025
In these cases, one mixes pseudorandom numbers from several computers, then incorporates the physical indeterminacy of randomly fluctuating voltages from a “white noise” source.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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