America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); It falls on the power sector to develop new resources to meet this extra demand as traditional power generation is struggling to keep pace. Moody's calculates that building the additional generation capacity will cost about $110 billion, adding an estimated $25 billion to $30 billion a year to electricity system costs. The resulting pressure on local grids has prompted some authorities to clamp down on new connections for compute sheds.Moody's believes most new IT campus operators are still likely to seek grid connections to limit development costs and benefit from service reliability and shared redundancy.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); It falls on the power sector to develop new resources to meet this extra demand as traditional power generation is struggling to keep pace.
- ▪Moody's calculates that building the additional generation capacity will cost about $110 billion, adding an estimated $25 billion to $30 billion a year to electricity system costs.
- ▪The resulting pressure on local grids has prompted some authorities to clamp down on new connections for compute sheds.Moody's believes most new IT campus operators are still likely to seek grid connections to limit development costs and be
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