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Data Center Knowledge
@datacenter.bsky.social

Amazon is building its own power system for an 8,000-acre Texas AI campus – and now says it is exploring how to connect that system to the grid and supply other customers. Full story: www.datacenterknowledge.com/energy-power...

datacenterknowledge.comAmazon Explores Grid Connection for 8,000-Acre AI CampusThe project combines a planned private-generation complex with an AI data center and has drawn national scrutiny over its potential emissions.

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The Durability Curve
@thedurabilitycurve.bsky.social

The tell is 'supply other customers'. One of the grid's largest loads may become a merchant utility: if you cannot get interconnection fast enough, become the grid. The open question is who keeps paying for the reliability that everyone else's tariffs still fund.