grid interconnection

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    Data Centers

    AI’s Obstacle: Why the Grid Can’t Keep Pace With the Data Center Boom

    Growth in artificial intelligence (AI) is outpacing the world’s ability to generate enough power to sustain it. As AI adoption accelerates worldwide, it’s colliding with a power system that wasn’t built for its level of demand. Vittorio Pierangeli, senior vice president PowerGen at Rolls-Royce Power Systems (Figure 1), explains why electricity, not chips or algorithms, […]

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    Data Centers

    From Backup to Prime Power: How AI Data Centers Are Bypassing the Grid

    Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical nature of modern artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is such that there is no tolerance of downtime. Further measures must be in place to ensure energy […]

  • INSERT ART / CUTLINE: Cycle 1 submissions to PJM Interconnection total 811 projects and 220,222 MW of proposed capacity, led by natural gas (105,797 MW across 157 projects) and storage (67,465 MW across 349 projects), with additional contributions from nuclear, solar, wind, and hybrid resources, according to PJM data as of April 28, 2026. Courtesy: PJM
    Trends

    PJM’s First Reformed Queue Cycle Draws 811 Projects, 220 GW

    PJM Interconnection’s first interconnection “cycle” under its revamped, clustered review process has attracted 811 new generation projects representing roughly 220 GW of nameplate capacity. The effort now moves to a validation phase, under which the grid operator will confirm that applicants have met baseline technical and financial requirements—including site control and readiness commitments—before advancing qualified […]