For most of the history of the electric industry, intelligence resided in the grid. Utilities forecast demand, dispatched generation, managed reserves, maintained reliability, and balanced the countless interactions occurring across the system every second of every day…
AI data centers may force the grid to overbuild. Not simply because the industry needs more electricity, but because the grid was built around an assumption that is starting to weaken: diversity of demand…
Data center loads don’t fit the grid model anymore. That’s the shift, but not in the way people think. Data centers have never been flat loads…
Data centers are building power behind the fence. It won’t stay there forever. Large data center facilities are increasingly building their own power. Not because they want to run power plants, but because in many markets the grid simply cannot connect them on the timelines these projects require…
In the State of the Union, the President said tech companies “have the obligation to provide for their own power needs” so that electricity prices don’t rise for consumers. The objective is clear: protect residential ratepayers…
The real debate isn’t about megawatts. It’s about how risk moves. In most markets, everyone understands that generation and transmission both matter. The question isn’t whether infrastructure is required. It’s how that infrastructure is structured…
The U.S. doesn’t have a power shortage. It has a system mismatch. The current conversation suggests we simply need more generation to support AI-driven growth. That framing is incomplete…
“When you see a fork in the road, take it.” — Yogi Berra. As a lifelong Yankee fan and student of Yogisms, I’ve found this true in power as well. Sometimes the smartest move is to take both paths…
A CNBC segment this morning featured the mayor of Chandler, Arizona, discussing the city council’s unanimous rejection of a proposed AI data center campus. Residents voiced strong opposition to the data center…