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One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.
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Tim De Chant
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A power line failure near Washington, DC, caused a massive, simultaneous drop in power consumption by local data centers, destabilizing the regional grid. This incident highlights the growing strain that high-density data center clusters place on electrical infrastructure.
A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped drawing power nearly simultaneously.
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