sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoA major watchdog says data centers are wreaking havoc on North America's power gridwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1430arrow-down14
arrow-up1426arrow-down1external-linkA major watchdog says data centers are wreaking havoc on North America's power gridwww.businessinsider.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square39linkfedilink
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoTL;DR: American power grid sucks and allows connecting extreme variable loads without any mitigation measures.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agotrying to modernize it should be a national priority… but it doesn’t score any political points so nobody cares. people just want to agonized about plants, but not about how the power is managed or transmitted, which is often running on 1950s tech.
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoIt was modernized after the great blackout in 2003. But it seems it’s outdated and failing all over again.
TL;DR: American power grid sucks and allows connecting extreme variable loads without any mitigation measures.
trying to modernize it should be a national priority… but it doesn’t score any political points so nobody cares.
people just want to agonized about plants, but not about how the power is managed or transmitted, which is often running on 1950s tech.
It was modernized after the great blackout in 2003. But it seems it’s outdated and failing all over again.