by Ricardo De Azevedo from MIT Technology Review on (#789XC)
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...