Brookhaven National Laboratory will lead a $14.2 million, three-year project developing a next-generation electric-grid foundation model.

The U.S. Department of Energy selected Brookhaven National Laboratory to lead a $14.2 million electric-grid artificial-intelligence project. The work will run for three years.

The project’s stated objective is to develop a next-generation foundation model for the electric grid. A foundation model is the project’s AI research output; the $14.2 million figure is project funding, not data-center capital expenditure or grid-generation capacity.

The project was selected through the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission Phase II Request for Application. The supplied announcement did not specify the model’s parameter count, training-compute allocation or underlying accelerator hardware.