U.S. regulators raise questions about siting data centers at power plants. Costs and reliability concerns related to the burgeoning trend of building energy-intensive data centers next to U.S. power plants were the focus of a technical conference held on Friday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
One of the primary issues discussed was the impact on supply-demand balance in regions where data centers are co-located with power plants, particularly nuclear facilities. Experts, including a watchdog for the PJM Interconnection market, indicated that increasing the number of data centers at these sites could exacerbate existing imbalances in electricity supply and demand
