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As heat power outages are increasing, things should worsen, with data centers focused on AI aspiring power.
The heat wave currently covering two-thirds of the United States with record temperatures is contradicted the country’s electrical system.
On Monday, Con Edison, New York electricity supplier, urged residents to keep electricity. It reduced power voltage to the Brooklyn borough by 8% because it made repairs; He did the same in the districts of Staten Island and Queens yesterday. Thousands of people have also lost energy because the network could not manage tension.
Comparable breakdowns have been felt in a large part of the East Coast and Midwest, especially in the states of Virginia and New Jersey. In Philadelphia and Cleveland, Power was extinguished for thousands of customers after serious thunderstorms at the end of last week, and has not yet been restored because the region faces high temperatures.
The National Railroad Corporation, Amtrak, reported delays on Tuesday due to speed restrictions caused by heat on the routes passing through Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
Power Grid Woes
This heat wave draws attention to the vulnerability of power infrastructure in the United States.
In the latest annual evaluation of the North American Electric Liability Corporation (NERC), large parts of the United States have insufficient power reserves to operate under “conditions superior to normal”, including parts of the Midwest, Texas, New England and South California.
Heat -related electrical strains have increased in recent years. According to a report of Central climate released last year, There were 60% of power outages linked to heat between 2014-2023 that the previous 10 years.
This comes among the new but increasing pressures on the American electrical network, including the prevalence of artificial intelligence data centers and the energy necessary to supply them. In 2022, in northern Virginia, Dominion Energy warned that the data centers there used so much energy that he could be unable to follow the request for demand.
For AI data centers, this strain is only defined to support more as genetive AI booms. The demand for electricity from Ai Server Farms is expected to increase at 12% by 2030.
There are also more immediate concerns of a cyber-stage of the “hacktivists” supported by Iran, which could target the American electricity network at a vulnerable time to avenge the recent American attack on Iranian nuclear sites, CNN reported. The American Cyber Starstheat Power Share Center has watched the Dark web for threats, he said, when the Ministry of Homeland Security issued a warning on potential cyber attacks on Sunday.
“Hacktivists and actors affiliated with the Iranian government regularly target poorly insured American networks and internet devices for disturbing cyber attacks,” said the opinion.
In 2023, hacktivists linked to Iran targeted a water authority in Pennsylvania with a minimum of success. In 2024, the American authorities discovered that the hackers associated with Iran were behind cyber attacks in American health establishments.
Electrical networks are particularly at risk, according to a report in 2024 of the North American Electric Liabibility Corporation (NERC), which said that there were up to 23,000 to 24,000 sensitive points in American electrical network systems which could be vulnerable to cyber attacks.
