Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://gographicsoutput.com/video/EMamTL7SynB.html Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter An emergency order means the U.S. grid can pull the plug on data centers [iBLtsKReRYj] Health Updated on August 11, 2026 EDT — Published on August 11, 2026 EDT A federal emergency order authorized curtailing data centers on the US power grid for the first time. The DOE directed PJM, the nation's largest grid operator, to run every fossil generator flat out during the July heat wave, with data center backup power available for curtailment as a last resort. The longer-term shift underneath is a backstop capacity auction that assigns new power costs directly to the loads creating them, ending a century-old default of socializing infrastructure bills across every household on the line. When the true price of power is visible on a data center operator's balance sheet, the economics tilt hard toward clean generation, and that migration is already the fastest-growing line in hyperscaler budgets. Subscribe for more from The Century Report. Watch the full episode here: Get the full story on all of this and much more - read the full edition of today's Century Report here: #AIDataCenters #PowerGrid #EnergyPolicy noR3eGvpgEK DVvcLuaMuve lrDjWUm4mrQ 3jCa3ErjaCS IcZAmWdPuE7 J7gwHg14LNJ WK4jCMPLLw9 8IE04iY2TZR
A federal emergency order authorized curtailing data centers on the US power grid for the first time. The DOE directed PJM, the nation's largest grid operator, to run every fossil generator flat out during the July heat wave, with data center backup power available for curtailment as a last resort. The longer-term shift underneath is a backstop capacity auction that assigns new power costs directly to the loads creating them, ending a century-old default of socializing infrastructure bills across every household on the line. When the true price of power is visible on a data center operator's balance sheet, the economics tilt hard toward clean generation, and that migration is already the fastest-growing line in hyperscaler budgets. Subscribe for more from The Century Report. Watch the full episode here: Get the full story on all of this and much more - read the full edition of today's Century Report here: #AIDataCenters #PowerGrid #EnergyPolicy noR3eGvpgEK DVvcLuaMuve lrDjWUm4mrQ 3jCa3ErjaCS IcZAmWdPuE7 J7gwHg14LNJ WK4jCMPLLw9 8IE04iY2TZR