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by erincandescent 4 days ago
A single ~50MW facility dropping off the grid suddenly is something the grid can absorb fine.

The problem is with facility-level grid-responsive safety mechanisms. If the grid sags a bit and several DCs ~simultaneously disconnect, you have a problem. If the DCs going offline causes further instability that causes other facilities to disconnect or grid protection breakers to open, you have a cascading chain reaction