Transmission lines become newest front for data center growing pains

Transmission lines become newest front for data center growing pains

Residents railed against Georgia Power‘s plan to erect new transmission lines along their residential streets to connect a substation on a data center

A Fraction Of Proposed Data Centers Will Get Built: Utilities Are Wising Up - Nemos News Network

By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive The U.S. grid is flooded with data center proposals that will never get built. That’s making it much more difficult for utilities and grid operators to plan for the future. “Conservatively, you’re seeing five to 10 times more interconnection requests than data centers actually being built,” said Astrid Atkinson, a former Google senior director of software engineering and now co-founder and CEO of grid optimizatio…