Ok. Start with all new datacenters. Require them to be built with infrastructure that allows for throttling of servers to occur when the utilities want to throttle.
They want the data centers without having to build renewables. Renewables are the cheapest form of energy, but constrained by ideology. Electric rates and availability are a function of these factors.
> An Ohio lawmaker wants to reintroduce an electricity peak demand program for small commercial and residential consumers, which would likely flatten their current bills and could create further financial incentives down the line, he said.
> “If we want to attract more business to Ohio, if we want to have the data centers here, if we don’t want rolling blackouts, we’re going to have to look at a number of creative things,” he said in an interview Friday. “This is one of them we know works because the (large) commercials use it.”
How many little customers do you need to throttle, to "save" enough energy for just one large DC?
Ok. Start with all new datacenters. Require them to be built with infrastructure that allows for throttling of servers to occur when the utilities want to throttle.
They want the data centers without having to build renewables. Renewables are the cheapest form of energy, but constrained by ideology. Electric rates and availability are a function of these factors.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/08/the-war-on-sunshine-h...
https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-s...
https://www.ehn.org/renewable-energy-faces-significant-hurdl...
Does the EU do something similar?
I don’t live in Ohio but I’d be mad if I’m at home sweating so some corp that harvested my data can keep their servers cool.
> An Ohio lawmaker wants to reintroduce an electricity peak demand program for small commercial and residential consumers, which would likely flatten their current bills and could create further financial incentives down the line, he said.
> “If we want to attract more business to Ohio, if we want to have the data centers here, if we don’t want rolling blackouts, we’re going to have to look at a number of creative things,” he said in an interview Friday. “This is one of them we know works because the (large) commercials use it.”
How many little customers do you need to throttle, to "save" enough energy for just one large DC?