Study warns of electricity shortages unless supply keeps pace with data center growth
Rolling blackouts would happen more than 13 days a year in a “worst case future” scenario, where data center growth is unrestrained and electricity supplies remain tight, according to a report commissioned by Pennsylvania utility regulators. Even if new power plants are built over the next 15 years, as data center projects come online, the regional electricity grid would fall short of demands six times per decade, on average, according to the report. “That means we’re running the grid at the red line,” Abe Silverman, a researcher at the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy ...
