{"id":1041994,"date":"2026-10-09T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041994"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:12:34","slug":"data-centers-flexible-power-usage-could-save-the-grid-billions-can-they-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/data-centers-flexible-power-usage-could-save-the-grid-billions-can-they-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centers&#8217; &#8216;flexible&#8217; power usage could save the grid billions. Can they scale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology companies and utilities are increasingly exploring ways to make power-hungry data centers more flexible in when and how they consume electricity, helping ease the strain on US power grids as AI-driven demand surges. <\/p>\n<p>The strategy, called &#8220;demand response&#8221;, involves data centers temporarily reducing or shifting electricity use during periods of peak demand or grid stress, and is gaining traction as a way to reduce the need for costly grid upgrades and new power generation. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tool that states around the US, federal agencies and market operators are increasingly exploring, said Lauren Shwisberg, a principal at energy think tank RMI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology companies and utilities are increasingly exploring ways to make power-hungry data centers more flexible in when and how they consume electricity, helping ease the strain on US power grids as AI-driven demand surges. The strategy, called &#8220;demand response&#8221;, involves data centers temporarily reducing or shifting electricity use during periods of peak demand or grid stress, and is gaining traction as a way to reduce the need for costly grid upgrades and new power generation. It&#8217;s a tool that states around the US, federal agencies and market operators are increasingly exploring, said Lauren Shwisberg, a principal at energy think tank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042019,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041994\/revisions\/1042019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}