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Largest U.S. Grid May Cut Power to Data Centers to Prevent Blackouts
www.gadgetreview.com/largest-u-s-grid-may-cut-power-to-data-centers-to-prevent-blackouts
Gadget ReviewLargest U.S. Grid May Cut Power to Data Centers to Prevent BlackoutsPJM grid operator plans emergency power cuts to data centers drawing 50 MW or more to protect 67 million households from rolling blackouts.
Nah, won’t happen. They’ll cut power to homes to prevent the datacenter blackout.
Replying to @AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
Whoever bids highest. Families paying for grandpa’s ventilator vs mark zuckerberg.
Replying to @gndagreborn@lemmy.world
I don’t know how it is in US but in Sweden there is a priority list when there is a risk of blackout. Hospitals is one of the highest priorities, if not the highest. Regular families is one of the lowest, it is expected that everyone should be prepared for losing power for a couple of hours. However, some big companies that uses lots of power have a deal with the grid owner that they can be disconnected/reduced power first when there is a risk of blackouts.
Replying to @Kjell@lemmy.world
same in the US - hospitals first, private homes last. the commenter above you is talking about a ventilator at home
I’m in California where the grid gets stressed out during the summer. Ocassionally, on high demand days, the power company woud perform rolling blackouts to keep up with demand.
Lived close to a large hospital for a while. Our section of the grid never saw those blackouts.
Replying to @miked@piefed.social
We had a vent for a bit in our house. Called pg&e and then our block (just 20 houses) got coded the same as the hospital in outages. I can’t remember what kind of supporting documents we had to send in. We lost power last in rolling blackouts. They let us keep that for a good… year after dad died? So someone else on the street must have been on a vent too.