[inigyou]

And then afterwards the electricity gets shut off to everyone who isn't a data center? That's what Georgia is threatening right now.

[newguy1000]

Do you ACTUALLY think that's a possibility? It's silly

[inigyou]

Of course I think it's a possibility that power companies follow through on their 1-year plans. Why wouldn't I?

[Izkata]

It looks worse than that, in Georgia people are apparently being forced to sell their homes to handle the power requirements for datacenters: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-power-ai-data-centers-e...

[cogman10]

Yes? Why wouldn't it be?

These things consume a pretty huge amount of power, more than a steel mill. If they are haphazardly put on a grid without the generation support then the power company has 2 options, brown out or selective blackouts (or risk tripping the whole grid).

It's not silly that an already stressed grid (I'll remind you that NYC just recently asked its citizens to turn the AC to 78 to avoid a brown out) might be pushed over the edge with a new datacenter.