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A 3-gigawatt power outage was attributed to data center surge demand, exposing infrastructure strain at scale

Grid stability risk emerging from concentrated data center load; power supply bottleneck now manifesting in real operational incidents
Trade pressSlicast · July 29, 2026 at 12:00 UTC · US · Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
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