A downed power line exposed a growing problem at IA’s data center. Here’s how to fix it. | TechCrunch0

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• July 25, 2026

This week a power line went down outside Washington, DC. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped consuming power almost simultaneously. The event caused voltage on PJM’s grid to spike from