Strained grids need smarter attention before more AI data centres

More intelligent and experienced attention needs to be paid attention to our already strained electric grids.

“Short cuts” are clearly not working.

Expect the strains on electric grids to continue getting worse, especially as increasing numbers of electric-power-ravenous AI data centers get built.

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Tom's notes 4

  1. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Dlzar Al Kez

    using AI to cobble together "smart grids" is clearly not going to work.

    Building more electricity-hungry AI data centers requires more reliable electricity than the eng8neering corner-cutting "short cuts" for grid "stability" which is increasingly being cobbled together by faulty AI "logic".

    As more AI is added to hold together the electric grid with computerized spit and baling twine, rather than actually *FIXING* the reliability and redundant backup protocols for keeping grids running smoothly, the reliabilty of electric grids will continue to decline.

  2. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Simon Derricutt

    continuing to add increasing amounts of
    ● intermittent + greatly variable
    ● wind & solar DC electricity generation
    is clearly a significant part of the increasing strain on the electric grid.

    Subsidies from governments appear to be successful in convincing electric utility companies to publicly deny the shortcomings and increased risks of adding wind & solar to the electric grid, while simultaneously phasing out more reliable forms of electricity generation.

    ● Adding intermittent electricity generation
    - while also -
    ● Reducing reliable electricity generation
    - results in -
    ● Less reliable electic grids.

    It really is *not* complicated.

  3. Tom Kirkman

    Thanks Maurice D Parenteau (TRUXy). But it would appear you still are not panicking *enough*

  4. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Benton Brown

    excellent points

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