Wed, Apr 8

NEWS: FERC Must Reconsider Risks Posed by Data Centers to Power Grids

Tension keeps building in the data center load debate. (Public Citizen)

  • Consumer advocacy org Public Citizen is asking FERC to rethink its dismissal of a PJM market monitor complaint. It would have allowed a temporary pause on new data center interconnections until the region can show it has enough generation and transmission to serve them. 

  • The filing comes weeks before NERC’s slated Level 3 Alert, which will sound the alarm on reliability concerns tied to rapid data center growth.

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