Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

On 6/23/23 4:01 PM, Delong.com via NANOG wrote:

The electric grid complaints are about the demand on the grid making the entire region less stable and proposed construction of new high-voltage tower corridors for data centers. Yeah, I can kind of understand those, but as long as the grid is properly planned, it really shouldn’t have a destabilizing effect. In fact, many datacenter in California do CoGen and end up providing additional grid stability.

Uh, ::cough:: PGE ::cough:: I so wanted to schadenfreude so bad with Texas and their shitty grid, but then remembered where I live. Mike