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Powering AI is an architecture problem
Publisher description: On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…
MIT Technology Review | Sep 10, 2026 | Ricardo De Azevedo
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No one could anticipate so much uniform load responding to grid faults the same way, at the same time. Different load sizes, same process—drawing power smoothly, misbehaving occasionally, and recovering gracefully. Grid faults hit the utility side, including a full zero-voltage event.
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