Report Says Grid ‘Flexibility’ Can Accommodate Power-Hungry Data Centers

House Democrats are highlighting researchers’ findings that greater use of grid “flexibility” programs, in which large power consumers curtail their demand during peak times, could allow the deployment of significant numbers of data centers without the need to rapidly build more “baseload” capacity such as gas-fired plants as Republicans prefer. The country’s grid “can support the orderly integration of new electricity demand, provided we make strategic use of existing infrastructure, provide a stable policy environment, and take a proactive approach...