6 stories tagged energy.
Amazon's 7.65-gigawatt off-grid gas plant in Texas, permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 per year for AI data center power, is twice the output of the worst US coal plant.
Large-load interconnection is now a 60-day FERC test for grid operators, and AI builders should treat power flexibility as product infrastructure.
Flexible data centers let AI sites cut load for a few peak hours, with Duke finding 76 GW of headroom at 0.25% curtailment.
Seattle data center moratorium is a 365-day pause on new large facilities. Treat 369 MW as the warning label for AI roadmaps.
AI data center backlash is now a zoning risk: Shelbyville's $2B Prologis campus shows trust can bottleneck compute before power does.
Virtual power plants are flexible loads coordinated as capacity. Google’s 100 MW Voltus deal tests whether homes will flex for AI.