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CPower, Bentaus and Supermicro Successfully Flex AI Compute Load for Demand Response
CPower Energy ("CPower"), a leading Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform, and Bentaus, a leading developer of AI-driven energy orchestration platforms, in collaboration with Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions, today announced the successful completion of a joint demonstration of how AI compute infrastructure can provide fast, reliable flexibility to the electric grid. In the test, CPower dispatched real-time wholesale electricity market signals f
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