Published Sep 10, 2026, 7:00 AM ET · Updated 2 months ago · 1 source
Powering AI is an architecture problem
MIT Technology Review
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Original Report
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…