@datandmaps: Unusually warm fall weather drove up electricity demand across PJM, the grid serving about 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C. The timing could hardly have been worse. Roughly 62,000 megawatts of generation were offline for scheduled fall maintenance, prompting PJM to issue a Maximum Generation Alert and recall some outages. The Department of Energy also authorized emergency measures that allowed PJM to call additional generators and, if needed, send data centers and other large users onto backup generation. PJM Inside Lines And the demand curve is heading sharply upward. PJM expects roughly 30 gigawatts of additional data-center demand between 2025 and 2030. PJM Inside Lines This is the grid America is asking to power the AI boom. At the same time, EPA has already repealed much of its 2024 carbon standards for fossil-fuel power plants and proposed eliminating the remaining federal greenhouse gas standards. US EPA 
The answer cannot simply be decades of more pollution. Source: PJM Interconnection / NWS forecast data #creatorsearchinsights #virginia #datacenter #chicago #usa_tiktok

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