Alphabet Inc’s Google unit is partnering with the largest electrical grid operator in North America, PJM Interconnection, to roll out artificial intelligence technologies aimed at getting new power supplies connected faster, the company said on Thursday. Electricity demand has been rising as Big Tech builds more data centers to train and deploy artificial intelligence. “The industry has been talking about building smarter grids for well over a decade, and now with AI, we have a real opportunity to turn discussion into action,” Amanda Peterson Corio, Google’s data center energy lead, said at a press conference.