PJM Interconnection now requires new data centers over 50 MW to supply their own power or face first-priority grid curtailment starting June 2027.
  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    17 hours

    They are the least essential service, so that makes total sense. Powering a dildo factory is more important than an AI data center.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
      11 hours

      There’s only like three companies in the world that make gas turbines. They’re already operating at capacity.

      While power grids do constantly grow, they don’t grow about 20% year over year. It simply isn’t possible to increase the power supply at the pace the AI companies are expecting in their data center plans. So they’re buying up all of these chips but there isn’t going to be electricity to power them.

      The AI bubble is just completely disconnected from reality.

    • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22 hours

      Good thing the EPA exists and hasn’t been gutted and disassemble over the last 50 years… Oh wait.

    • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      18 hours

      Let’s call methane and such what they are - fossil gas. The “natural” gas green-washing campaign has done enough harm as it is.

      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
        17 hours

        It’s natural gas as opposed to coal gas - if you heat coal in an anerobic environment, it is refined into a flammable liquid + gas. Fun little science demonstration

        They used to use it for lights everywhere, and it left soot all over the walls. Silly putty was invented to clean it off of wallpapers, but then they added dye and it became silly

        I don’t have a problem rebranding it as fossil gas, but the name natural wasn’t green washing. It did occur naturally, and it is a hell of a lot cleaner than what was used before

            • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              6 hours

              Silly Putty I think was an attempt to make plastic that failed and they went “well it’s kind of fun to play with, we’ll sell it as a toy?”

              wikis the pedia

              Rubber. It was an attempt to make synthetic rubber during WWII rationing. Found to be pretty useless but kind of a fun toy.

              • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
                2 hours

                Haha I actually was curious how it came to be after your comment, but didn’t get around to looking it up myself. Neat

    • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21 hours

      It is at least positive how forthright they are about its use in their process.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    18 hours

    why wait til mid next year, hopefully the people forget about it by the time of the elections in '28.