Northern Virginia, every mention
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every year anyone Shayle Kann 18Maeve Allsup 5Brian Janous 4Andy Lubershane 2Seth Frader-Thompson 1Richard Wang 1
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The rise of metal fuels
- ▶ 1:32 Shayle Kann For example, to wit, there are more than 10,000 diesel generators in Northern Virginia alone.
- ▶ 7:41 Richard Wang Of course, many data centers are built close to urban corridors, like Northern Virginia in particular, is where we've seen a lot of the most acute challenges with the diesel generator fleets there.
The electrician shortage slowing the AI boom
- ▶ 16:08 Shayle Kann It may be, I mean, if you're Northern Virginia, there's lots of these, right?
How data centers are complicating transmission expansion
- ▶ 4:25 Maeve Allsup It would run from Southwestern Pennsylvania to Northern Virginia, crossing through Maryland and also a good chunk of West Virginia. 5 times in the scene
AI scaling pathways: on grid, on edge, off grid, off planet
- ▶ 26:32 Shayle Kann Like, historically, you know, there were these tier one markets, like Northern Virginia, or Chicago, or Phoenix, or whatever, Atlanta, and, uh, and they were where 90% of the demand for new data centers was going to be, and there's still…
Will inference move to the edge?
- ▶ 27:05 Shayle Kann And there's a reason why Northern Virginia is the data center hub of the world. 2 times in the scene
PJM and the capacity crunch
- ▶ 3:18 Shayle Kann But let's talk about one of the bigger alarm bells, which comes recently in the form of the annual capacity market auction in PJM, which is the grid operator for the Mid-Atlantic in the United States, which among other things is home to…
- ▶ 11:53 Shayle Kann PJM is, is home to Northern Virginia. 3 times in the scene
The state of play of data center development
- ▶ 3:56 Shayle Kann Northern Virginia being the one everybody probably knows the most about, but then there were like 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:24 Shayle Kann Northern Virginia. 2 times in the scene
More 2025 trends: DeepSeek, plug-in hybrids, and curtailment
- ▶ 40:21 Shayle Kann Now I'm sure most of our listeners know that, you know, if you, if you ask people like what state has been most affected by data center energy or just data centers in general, I think most people probably know it's Northern Virginia.
Explaining the 'Watt-Bit Spread'
- ▶ 9:53 Brian Janous Uh, and so it's really changed the problem set to being not solving for, can I find real estate in some proximity to Northern Virginia, but where can I get a gigawatt of power, which is a completely different challenge. 2 times in the scene
Frontier Forum: Why utilities should go big on VPPs
- ▶ 19:07 Seth Frader-Thompson I think there are places like Arizona, like Northern Virginia, you know, a handful of other places that get, you know, the most interest from either data centers or new manufacturing, but I think every utility is facing this.
Under the hood of data center power demand
- ▶ 10:12 Brian Janous So Northern Virginia is a great example. 2 times in the scene
The electricity gauntlet has arrived
- ▶ 13:35 Shayle Kann So, like, tip of the spear on this is, is Northern Virginia and Dominion Energy, which has been the biggest data center region historically.
More 2024 trends: ESG, carbon certifications, curtailment, and AI
- ▶ 40:36 Shayle Kann If you're in Northern Virginia right now, a gigawatt would be. 2 times in the scene
Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide removal, load growth, and more
- ▶ 8:45 Shayle Kann Northern Virginia, where, like, there is a, the queue for new load coming from data centers alone, I think, is larger than the entire capacity of the system today in that region.
Navigating the electricity gauntlet
- ▶ 12:58 Andy Lubershane They can't serve additional data center demand in Northern Virginia, which is one of the biggest areas for data center demand in the world. 2 times in the scene