“Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes”

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/google_ai_datacenter_grid/

by theworkeragency

6 comments

  2. AI is the savior, we must run the models 24/7/365 to beat the Chinese

    VS

    Jk we can turn them off, we’re just making memes and giving bad Google results.

  3. They aren’t doing this to be nice, they’re doing it to speed up interconnection and/or get cheaper rates.

  5. That’s literally in the agreement for basically every data center. Most have a backup system anyways in the event they lose power and want to keep running. The same system is used for load shedding.

  6. These data centers should be building wind & solar co-gen and adding grid scale battery storage.

    The OpCos should be demanding this because capacity auctions are becoming more expensive because projected demand is out striping planned capacity

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