Eine große Aufsichtsbehörde sagt, dass Rechenzentren das Stromnetz Nordamerikas verwüsten

Good luck selling your collective soul and power grid to Elon, Texas.

Who would have thunk

I’m not watchdog and will tell you the same. Put a dramatically increased load on a system and yea, havoc starts wrecking.

If they can make money, then they don’t care.

This is what happens when common sense is secondary to greed and monetary gain. There should be studies done as a prerequisite to building these data centers. How much power will they consume? Will the grid handle the increased load? If not, how will the grid improvements be financed? The grid should be bolstered, if needed, BEFORE the data center gets constructed, and the cost of the improvements should never be forwarded to the electric service customers. EVER. These technolords want this technology. The entire economy and the stock market is propped up by the borrowed money, that gets reborrowed, ad infinitum, to further this tech. Normal, everyday people did not ask for this. Most of them don’t want it. Let the billionaires finance the improvements to the electrical grid needed to support the tech they so badly want. They have the money.

Everyday Americans, already struggling in a failing economy, do not.

Just wait until the aquifers used to cool the hardware have dried up.

* [ Why America’s Groundwater Is Disappearing | WSJ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdNtraY6HhQ)
* [ GROUNDWATER MINING: What happens when an aquifer runs out of water ? ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVD98KpPwv0) Aquifers without water can collapse and loose their ability to store water permanently

Power bill is one thing – many data centers use ground water for cooling and thus will put a burden on a limited resource that might vanish.

Make them go solar powered . I just had my panels installed and they use a Bidirectional Meter. Do the power that isn’t used goes back to Peco as a credit on my account. Inverters built into the panels no battery backup used.

“A major watchdog” seems like a bit of an understatement for NERC. NERC is THE regulatory body that develops and enforces mandatory reliability standards for the bulk electric system.

Yup, am a PM in Utilities for capital projects. These data centers are coming in and asking for major Gigawatt loads being added to the grid. It’s like the gold rush right now. The biggest players already paid their contracts and those are underway and everyone else is just clawing at opportunities to build. They act like money is no concern it’s just material availability and timing. I haven’t even factored labor in, I bet that’s have to be hell right now to get enough labor to build all this.

Put the data centers on the same grid as the governors mansions and legislature buildings in every state.

Things will get changed for the better, or they’ll start shutting down data centers.

It’s like a snow storm hitting the Texan power grid.

We can’t take much more of this.

I hate AI and wish people weren’t so taken in by glorified autocomplete that they’re letting chatbots take over the world, but I honestly see the ongoing struggle between datacenters and the power grid as a good thing. America’s infrastructure has been neglected for decades and nothing will get it upgraded faster than creating a situation where the government has to upgrade it in order to let their donors fire more workers. They were gonna let it go until the whole country was engulfed in rolling blackouts, but if PlebEraser 9000 is at risk for going down for 20 minutes, the crews will be out laying new power lines within the hour.

We can’t have EVs because the grid can’t handle it, but go ahead and green light data centers everywhere.

My BGE bill to keep my family and house warm during that snow storm that left my driveway ice for a week was a little over $1000. No way we used that much gas and electricity. I haven’t changed a damn thing and since February my electricity bill has been decreasing steadily. 

Seems like it’s all bullshit!