US Power Grid at Risk as AI Data Centers Demand Soars
The new report from Bloomberg has suggested that the proliferation of data centers to meet the computational needs of AI users may not augur well for the power grid in the US.
Bloomberg found that data gathered from a whopping 1 million residential sensors tracked by Whisker Labs, and market intelligence data from DC Byte revealed that almost more than half of those homes identified with the worst power distortions are located within 20 miles from high data center activities.
There seems to be a correlation between the distance from the women and the ugly harmonics, as it’s expressed: the term ‘ugly harmonics’ refers to an imperfect electrical flow into homes.
Bloomberg claims that this “distorted” power can destroy appliances plugged into it, create conditions for electrical fire susceptibility, and may even soon be brownouts and blackouts. The most affected are AI data centers with uncertain energy requirements.
“No grid can be designed to handle this,” said Aman Joshi, chief commercial officer at Bloom Energy. Not for one data center at a time. Not for multiple data centers at the same time.
The spokesperson for the Chicago utility Commonwealth Edison told Bloom that they “strongly question the accuracy and assumptions that underlie Whisker Lab’s claims.”
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