密西西比电网告急，Entergy 威胁高峰时段切断 Amazon 数据中心供电
电力不足已经逼得 Amazon 专门造了一套自动切备用电的系统，数据中心和电网的关系这篇讲得很清楚。
据 The Information 报道，密西西比州公用事业公司 Entergy 告知 Amazon，将在用电高峰时段把其数据中心切出电网，这促使 AWS 调整了这些站点的备用电源切换机制。Amazon 为此推出 Project Falcon，让电力公司无需联系 AWS 即可自行将站点切换到备用电源。Falcon 目前为密西西比州部署，之后可能推广到美国其他地区。Synergetic CEO Mike Sloan 表示，数据中心必须接受一定限电，并准备好应对这种风险的工具箱。
The power grid just became the AI bottleneck. The Information reports Mississippi's Entergy told Amazon it would start kicking Amazon's data centers off the grid at peak times, a previously unreported warning that prompted AWS to change how those sites switch to backup power.
Amazon's answer is Project Falcon. Now the utility can switch the sites to backup power on its own, without contacting AWS. Falcon was built for Mississippi and may roll out elsewhere in the U.S. As Synergetic CEO Mike Sloan put it: "[Data centers] have to accept some curtailment, which means then the data center has to have a toolbox that can handle that risk."
