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

and particularly when it gets low, then there's an attempt to bring up the voltage to correct that.

When that happens, sometimes the voltage gets too high, and then this is what happened in Spain and Portugal.

The voltage got so high trying to correct the frequency challenges that the sensors on the energy supply equipment tripped out for overvoltage

conditions on the grid.

So that created the cascade to where the entire system was lost.

And then you have to go, but then you're in a black start situation where you have to start all over from scratch, which is what they did in Texas in Snowmageddon.

That is a very slow, painful process.

So if there's a way to avoid it, we want to avoid it at all costs.

It is.

And what happens, what you see a lot of times in like Snowmageddon where the temperature is very cold, when the system does start to come back up, the cold-blowed pickup from all these people that have been without energy

for so long is very large.

So it spikes and you can run into other issues there.

Same thing when it's really hot in the summer.

So it's an art as well as a science for the grid operators to be able to do that.

Back to your living and breathing.

I would love to do that.

Oh, I like that.

Which one got the top billing?

I would not argue that point with you.

I love County Down.

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