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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 16, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
NVIDIA and Emerald AI Cut a Data Center's Draw From Four Megawatts to Three on a Utility Signal
The automated load reduction took under a minute and kept high-priority jobs running, with a 96-megawatt deployment planned in Manassas, Virginia.
On an August evening in Santa Clara, the municipal utility Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI data center and its power draw fell from four megawatts to three without an operator intervening, according to NVIDIA's account. The soft…
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