Data Center Problems

“Hyperscale” data centers accompanying the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the fastest growing uses of electricity in the United States and the rest of the world. Indeed, such growth, with the retirement of dispatchable fossil fuel electricity plants, drives persistent warnings about potential reliability problems for the US power system. As Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) Commissioner Mark Christie warned in late July, to the House Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security.