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[AI Data Center Power Consumption Surges, US Mississippi Issues Power Warning] "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" reported on the 10th that two people familiar with the matter recently revealed that earlier this year, Mississippi power company Entergy issued a warning to Amazon: During peak power consumption hours, in order to ensure power supply to other users, the company will have to cut off the grid power supply to Amazon's data center in Mississippi. Local power companies rarely take power outage measures for large customers, but this previously unreported warning reflects the surge in power demand from AI cloud vendors and is forcing power companies to take unprecedented measures to balance the power needs of various users. Two people familiar with the matter said Entergy's warning prompted AWS to modify the automatic power supply switching system, which is used to switch data centers from the public grid to backup power sources such as gas generators. (The Information)
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