The biggest U.S. power grid is under strain from AI and no one is happy | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- PJM Interconnection released a white paper this week that said the region “has years, not decades’ to make fundamental changes to the way it operates.
- “The current situation is not tenable,” PJM CEO David Mills wrote in a forward to the report.
- PJM’s territory includes a large number of data centers, including the compute-dense region of Northern Virginia.
- One utility, American Electric Power (AEP), is considering pulling out of PJM altogether.
Pity the PJM Interconnection. For decades, the grid operator worked quietly and in the background, matching electricity demand with supply. Meanwhile, customers enjoyed some of the lowest electricity [+5289 chars]
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