The Boom in AI Is Stressing the Largest US Power Grid
PJM Interconnection has issued nine energy emergency alerts for its network since June.
Transmission lines near an Amazon Web Services data center in Dublin, Ohio.
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Welcome to our guide to the commodities markets moving the global economy. Today, reporter Naureen S. Malik discusses how the booming growth of AI data centers is straining the largest US power grid.
In terms of electricity, a huge swath of the US encompassing 13 states was, for many years, the proverbial land of plenty. From Illinois to New Jersey to North Carolina, the area covered by PJM Interconnection LLC had more than enough power to get by.