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

Can you bring on this unit or that unit or whatever it is?

But they follow.

And so then when the load goes back down, some of the generation will come off the grid.

So there's this whole following path between load and supply.

In between that is in North America, the frequency of electricity is 60 Hertz.

Most of the rest of the world, it's 50 Hertz.

But that frequency and very tight tolerance on that frequency is the backbone of what keeps the grid running.

Because once the frequency starts to get a little bit out of whack, then you can get runaway voltages on the high side, or in some cases the low side, but the high side is the bigger challenge because if that happens and the voltage being supplied to end use customers,

is higher than allowed by code, then you can start to ruin a lot of equipment inside homes, businesses, factories, data centers, those kinds of things.

So that's why those tight controls are built into the grid.

And if the frequency gets, I mean, and we're talking like two tenths of a Hertz out of 60, if it gets out of whack, then there has to be some regulation.

To bring it back into control so that you don't have that runaway situation and create a cascading block blackout.

Some of that played into it.

I think

What you call snowmageddon, I think there was just a complete shortage of anywhere close to the ability to meet the demand.

But when you're still trying to meet some of it, that does create those operational problems that we talked about with voltage fluctuations and the frequency fluctuations.

You know, one of the best examples that happened in the last couple of years, you may remember the Iberian Peninsula blackout.

That was caused by frequency regulation issues.

What happens when this occurs, sensors are set on generation equipment for overvoltage conditions.

And when the frequency starts to...

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