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29.04.26 - 03:24
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Some Spirit Lenders Balk as US Rescue Talks Hit Impasse (Bloomberg)
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Talks over a potential $500 million US government rescue financing deal for Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc. have hit an impasse, with a lender group that includes Citadel, resisting terms that would likely severely impair their claims and recoveries, according to people familiar with the matter....
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29.04.26 - 01:57
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The US Grid Wasn′t Built For This (ZeroHedge)
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The US Grid Wasn't Built For This
Authored by Tejasri Gururaj via Interesting Engineering,
Global data center power demand is projected to hit 84 GW by 2027—a 50 percent jump from 2023 levels—with AI workloads accounting for 27 percent of that total, according to Goldman Sachs Research.
The grid is strained by increasing demand from electricity-hungry data centers and electric vehicles.Getty Images
The grid cannot keep up with AI. For decades, electricity demand grew slowly and predictably, giving utilities comfortable margins to plan capacity years in advance. That model broke almost overnight. Between 2023 and 2024 alone, utilities' five-year summer peak demand forecasts jumped from 38 GW to 128 GW, a more than threefold increase in a single planning cycle.
Unlike traditional server loads, which are relatively flat and predictable, AI inference and training jobs generate sharp, near-instantaneous power spikes. Large-scale GPU clusters can produce fluctuations of hundreds of megawatts ...
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