NVIDIA And Google's New Coalition Wants To Speed Up AI Data Center Power Grid Connections
In exchange, the facilities would reduce power usage during peak demand.
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NVIDIA, Google and Emerald AI have launched a new coalition called the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), the companies announced. The aim is to promote more flexible AI data centers that won't be disruptive to electricity grids or require massive, taxpayer-funded upgrades. In exchange, the coalition wants utility operators to connect their data centers faster.
As NVIDIA explains in its own blog post, US power infrastructure was built for "flat, static electricity demand" and not for computing centers that can moderate power usage. To that end, the companies want to set a standard for flexible data centers that can shift computing workloads, discharge storage and respond to system contingencies, making it a "controllable resource rather than an inflexible load."
Emerald AI, a startupdedicated to making data centers more flexible, explained the new...
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