#grid-cost-socialisation

PJM's independent market monitor attributed 38% of the latest capacity auction cost to data-centers. Speculative interconnection requests inflate queues further, and where cost-allocation rules are unchanged the resulting charges spread across all customers.

Connect large loads sooner if they accept curtailment during scarcity hours. Modelling finds 76 to 126 GW of headroom in the 22 largest US balancing authorities at 0.25–1% of hours curtailed. Google has signed 1 GW of demand response but publishes no curtailment performance data.