David Porter

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Not Your Father’s Data Center · David Porter: From Grid Load to Grid Asset: How Data Centers Can Support the Grid · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

where there's a super peak condition where temperatures are extreme, maybe some generating units are down, whatever it is, but it's not long periods of time.

But if you call on those today, you're gonna get the owner of those gensets out of compliance with their air permits.

So this is really an important aspect that we're pursuing and it can be a big, big plus for the grid.

You're not, and I'm happy to comment on it because it's not something that's out of the realm of what we look at and work on.

And we actually have a couple of reports that we've put out about affordability in general, as well as the affordability impact from data centers on the grid and on other customers connected to the grid.

There is not a correlation between a new data center and electric prices going up.

In a right scenario, that could be the case.

But the more normal scenario is that load growth on the grid benefits all of the people connected to the grid.

It makes the operation of the grid more efficient.

It spreads out the cost over a greater expanse of kilowatt hours.

So everyone's cost comes down.

And you can go to our website, Raymond.

It's epri.com.

And there's a DC Flex microsite underneath that that you can go to.

And if you type in affordability, it'll pop up some of the work that we did.

And what it will show you are statistics looking just at the U.S.,

That where states have low growth, average electricity prices are going down.

States that don't have low growth, the average electricity prices are going up.

We have historical data that shows that.

Well, Flex Mosaic is a framework that we built, Raymond, in conjunction with developers, hyperscalers, most importantly, the grid operators, the people who run the structured markets in the U.S.

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