{"id":186696,"date":"2026-02-12T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/wsu-scientists-build-on-expertise-in-energy-grid-computer-security-wsu-insider\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:10:11","slug":"wsu-scientists-build-on-expertise-in-energy-grid-computer-security-wsu-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/wsu-scientists-build-on-expertise-in-energy-grid-computer-security-wsu-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU scientists build on expertise in energy grid, computer security | WSU Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/12\/wsu-scientists-build-on-expertise-in-energy-grid-computer-security\/\">WSU scientists build on expertise in energy grid, computer security | WSU Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/12\/wsu-scientists-build-on-expertise-in-energy-grid-computer-security\/\">https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/12\/wsu-scientists-build-on-expertise-in-energy-grid-computer-security\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-12 09:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.wsu.edu\">news.wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Washington State University (WSU) is pioneering research in using AI and machine learning to address complex challenges in modern power grids.<\/li>\n<li>Modern power grids are becoming two-way systems due to the integration of solar and wind farms, leading to a more intricate balance between supply and consumption.<\/li>\n<li>AI data centers are significant consumers of power, raising concerns about the strain on energy grids and potential cost increases for consumers.<\/li>\n<li>WSU aims to develop decentralized, distributed power grid models to improve efficiency and resilience, using AI to forecast energy demand and aid in long-term planning.<\/li>\n<li>Cybersecurity is becoming a critical concern with AI-assisted threats and automated systems using machine learning to defend cyber networks.<\/li>\n<li>WSU&#8217;s VICEROY Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research (CySER) focuses on creating robust cyber defense tools and educating future cybersecurity professionals.<\/li>\n<li>There is an inherent tension between cybersecurity and privacy, which also influences AI applications. WSU researchers are addressing this with synthetic data generation techniques to improve machine learning for cybersecurity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSU scientists build on expertise in energy grid, computer security | WSU Insider https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/12\/wsu-scientists-build-on-expertise-in-energy-grid-computer-security\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/news\/uploads\/sites\/2797\/2026\/02\/GRID-PHOTO.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186698,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186696\/revisions\/186698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}