Snowflake Launches Energy Solutions for the AI Data Cloud to Accelerate Shift to a Lower-Carbon Future

No-Headquarters/BOZEMAN, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 27, 2026--

Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today announced new Energy Solutions, uniting Snowflake’s governance capabilities, partner-developed solutions, and industry-critical datasets into a single offering tailored for the energy sector. Snowflake Energy Solutions enable power, utilities, and oil and gas companies to build a trusted data foundation for AI by securely connecting data across IT, OT, and IoT systems to modernize infrastructure, improve efficiency, and accelerate progress toward a more reliable and lower-carbon future.

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Organizations such as ExxonMobil, Expand Energy, IGS Energy, Powerex, PG&E, Siemens, and Sunrun are turning to Snowflake to secure critical infrastructure, improve operational resilience, and navigate volatile markets with real-time insight. This launch also builds on Snowflake’s new partnership withSAP, enabling energy companies to combine SAP finance and supply chain data with operational and field data on Snowflake, so insights derived from both business and operational systems directly inform grid operations, asset planning, and commercial performance.

To further support customers, Snowflake is also introducing 30+ new partner-built solutions that run natively on the AI Data Cloud.

CARTO, for example, is delivering new cloud-native spatial analytics built directly on Snowflake, enabling energy companies to perform geospatial analysis and build interactive maps without moving data across systems. By embedding spatial intelligence into Snowflake workflows, CARTO helps teams better understand assets, infrastructure, and geographic risk as part of day-to-day operational decision-making.

Itron, a global utility technology provider, is introducing an advanced Grid Planning solution built on Snowflake to help utilities manage modern grid complexity. The solution features industry-leading 8,760-hour power flow analysis that can model grid performance years into the future at highly granular levels — delivering results in hours instead of months — so utilities can plan infrastructure more accurately, avoid unnecessary costs, and improve long-term reliability.

Siemens, a global technology company, is highlighting its joint Siemens Industrial Edge integration with Snowflake, which enables energy and industrial companies to securely bring data from decentral industrial assets into Snowflake for advanced analytics and AI. Building on this foundation, Siemens is introducing new analytical capabilities, which also allow teams to interact with operational data using natural language to gain faster insight into performance, maintenance, and operational issues. Together, these capabilities help energy companies improve reliability, reduce costs, and make more informed decisions across complex, distributed operations.

These new partner-built solutions support critical energy use cases such as grid planning, asset health, and operational forecasting, underscoring the momentum Snowflake is seeing with customers and partners across the energy sector. Combined with Snowflake’s easy-to-use platform and built-in governance, they help companies unify data and apply AI across everything from asset performance to network optimization so teams can get started faster and deliver impact sooner.

“Data is the control plane for the future of energy,” said Fred Cohagan, Global Head of Energy, Snowflake. “Whether it’s keeping the grid secure, protecting critical assets, or balancing supply and demand in volatile markets, energy companies need a trusted data foundation that can activate AI everywhere. Snowflake is helping the world’s energy leaders modernize how they manage data and harness AI to democratize insights so that anyone, not just data scientists, can act on intelligence in real time. This shift allows organizations to do more with less, optimize existing assets, and deliver stronger sustainability and shareholder outcomes.”

Technology is also unlocking the value of more than 100 years of historical energy data. With Snowflake Intelligence, technical and non-technical employees — from field engineers to analysts — can use natural language to get trusted answers in seconds. Together, this marks a shift from democratizing data to democratizing decisions.

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Snowflake Launches Energy Solutions for the AI Data Cloud to Accelerate Shift to a Lower-Carbon Future

MILAN (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games, according to information shared with local media by sources at the U.S. Embassy in Rome. The Associated Press independently confirmed the information with two officials at the embassy.

The officials who confirmed ICE participation on Tuesday said that federal ICE agents would support diplomatic security details and would not run any immigration enforcement operations.

During previous Olympics, several federal agencies have supported security for U.S. diplomats, including the investigative component of ICE called Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the officials said. They could not be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly.

HSI has a global footprint, and it’s common for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide security support at major international events.

The State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service does this as well, routinely supporting events like the Olympics. The use of U.S. law enforcement agencies in these contexts isn’t unusual. During the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Transportation Security Administration deployed officers to assist with airport screening due to the surge in visitors and the potential threat of attacks.

Citing images of masked ICE agents that have dominated coverage of unrest in Minneapolis, Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said that ICE would not be welcome in his city, which is hosting most ice sports during the Feb. 6-22 Winter Games.

"This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt,'' Sala told RTL Radio 102 before ICE's deployment to the Games was confirmed.

ICE's role had been reported over the weekend by the Italian daily il Fatto Quotidiano, prompting conflicting statements from Italian authorities who did not want to appear to confirm the agency's role.

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Saturday he had not received confirmation of ICE's deployment, but added that "I don't see what the problem would be,'' the news agency ANSA reported.

The Interior Ministry on Tuesday repeated that the U.S. has not confirmed the makeup of its security detail but insisted that “at the moment there are no indications that ICE USA will act as an escort to the American delegation."

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will lead a delegation attending the Feb. 6 opening ceremony. The delegation will also include second lady Usha Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the White House announced earlier this month.

The confirmation of ICE's role in Olympic security comes after RAI state TV aired video Sunday of ICE agents threatening to break the glass on the vehicle of a RAI crew reporting in Minneapolis, where ICE operations have sparked mass demonstrations. In the past three weeks, federal officers in Minneapolis have shot and killed two protesters against deportations and immigration enforcement.

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AP writer Colleen Barry in Milan contributed.

FILE - Milan's mayor Giuseppe Sala attends Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics cauldron lighting, in front of the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome, Friday Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

FILE - Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi waits for U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, at the Viminale Interior Ministry headquarters, Friday, May 23, 2025, in Rome. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File)

FILE - This photo shows the snowboarding and freestyle skiing events which will take place during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Livigno, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti, File)