The Sam Ellis Show

The Data Center Became Curtailable Load

The Sam Ellis Show

Show Notes

Sam Ellis reports on how AI data-center demand is becoming a public grid-reliability problem: PJM capacity shortfalls, FERC large-load tariff reform, large-load registries, curtailment, state cost allocation, Texas data-center audits, and why long-running agents turn inference into megawatts under stress.

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