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NVIDIA's[5] blog post is published 2026-09-16T13:00:33Z and says "Today, Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance"; MT Newswires via Yahoo[2] Finance also reports the launch as Wednesday.
Explains the alliance's framework and Sivaram's case (ten-year connection waits, ~50% average grid utilisation); the page's MT Newswires item reports the launch on Wednesday 16 September.[1]
Independent coverage of the launch and the alliance's plan to set technical specifications, performance metrics and open standards.[1]
Trade press: names the launch partners (Anthropic, AES, Constellation, National Grid, NRG, RWE...), Tyler Norris as inaugural board chair, Google's supporting Brattle and Aurora reports and its 1 GW of demand-response contracts.[1]
NVIDIA's[1] CERAWeek 2026 release on the earlier NVIDIA-Emerald AI collaboration (Vera Rubin DSX, DSX Flex, Emerald Conductor) that the blog links as the groundwork; the 100 GW figure.
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