Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

Sat Jun 24 00:53:15 UTC 2023

On 6/23/23 4:01 PM, Delong.com via NANOG wrote:
> The electric grid complaints are about the demand on the grid making 
> the entire region less stable and proposed construction of new 
> high-voltage tower corridors for data centers.
> Yeah, I can kind of understand those, but as long as the grid is properly planned, it really shouldn’t have a destabilizing effect. In fact, many datacenter in California do CoGen and end up providing additional grid stability.
>
Uh, ::cough:: PGE ::cough::

I so wanted to schadenfreude so bad with Texas and their shitty grid, 
but then remembered where I live.

Mike