Grid becomes AI's bottleneck: Entergy warned Amazon of peak-time data center cutoffs
kimmonismus · x · 2026-10-12
Per The Information, Mississippi utility Entergy told Amazon it would start kicking its data centers off the grid at peak times — a previously unreported warning that pushed AWS to change how those sites switch to backup power.
- Amazon's answer is Project Falcon: the utility can switch sites to backup power on its own, without contacting AWS
- kimmonismus argues energy is now AI/data centers' biggest problem, with hundreds of billions in grid upgrades not yet factored in
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