February 13, 2025

Study Finds Headroom on the Grid for Data Centers

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

If data centers can be flexible and limit their power demands for a handful of hours each year, the US could add around 100 GW of new load without expanding generation, according to a new report from Duke University. The findings add a wrinkle to the dire warnings that the load from data centers training artificial intelligence models could crash the grid, reports E&E News.