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Flexible AI Data Centers: When Compute Must Follow the Grid
Week 41 asked who owns the power plan for a handful of robot cells. Week 42 scales the question up two orders of magnitude, to the AI data-center campus, where the connection itself is now rationed by one criterion: can the load flex?
Data centers are the grid’s clearest flexibility test case, training runs, batch inference and backups all tolerate a few hours’ delay, and the largest new peak landing on many grids at once. The proof is live, not theoretical: Emerald AI and Nvidia cut a working GPU cluster ~25% for three hours with SLAs intact; Google manages ~1 GW of flexible load…
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