The US may have a secret weapon against rising electricity prices. The grid is built to handle “peak demand”, meaning that most of the time it is only running at about half of its capacity. A data center willing to curtail demand a few days a year could be built without needing any new power plants.

Yea right, the truth is it will be the cities mandated to “curtail demand” a few days a year. Governments will claim that AI is too important to “turn off” and that it is better for regular citizens to just be without power for a weekend here and there.

Strange that they have a large building that would be easy to accommodate solar power. It will not power it all but it sure would help with it’s overall usage. Plus installing battery backup would be a game changer.