# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-16T06:18:31.385Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-16/nvidia-and-emerald-ai-cut-a-data-center-s-draw-from-four-meg
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/from-megawatts-to-tokens-how-nvidia-maximizes-ai-factory-production/)

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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