硅谷 Santa Clara 数据中心试行 AI 负荷调度：与市属电力合作增强电网灵活性
位于加州圣克拉拉县的 Santa Clara 市近日启动一项数据中心电网灵活性试点：科技公司 Emerald AI 与该市市属电力公司 Silicon Valley Power 合作，在 Centersquare 位于当地的一座多兆瓦数据中心测试 Emerald Conductor 平台。
这套平台实时调度人工智能计算负载，在电网紧张时段主动降低或平移数据中心的用电需求，目标是在不中断服务的前提下增强电网的灵活性、可靠性与可负担性。Silicon Valley Power 电力部门负责人 Nico Procos 与 Emerald AI 创始人兼首席执行官 Varun Sivaram 均表示，AI 用电增长正使这类需求侧调度从试点变成必需。
Centersquare 在 Santa Clara 共运营五座数据中心。Santa Clara 是硅谷数据中心最密集的城市之一，市属电力公司的供电能力与电价直接影响科技企业的选址。（GSM 据 DataCenterDynamics 报道）
Silicon Valley Pilot Tests AI Workload Scheduling at Santa Clara Data Center to Make the Grid More Flexible
SANTA CLARA, California — A grid-flexibility pilot is under way in Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley: technology firm Emerald AI is working with Silicon Valley Power, the city's municipal utility, to test the Emerald Conductor platform at a multi-megawatt Centersquare data center in the city in Santa Clara County.
The platform schedules artificial-intelligence computing workloads in real time, trimming or shifting a data center's power draw during grid stress so that flexibility, reliability and affordability improve without interrupting service. Nico Procos of Silicon Valley Power and Varun Sivaram, founder and CEO of Emerald AI, both say growth in AI power demand is turning this kind of demand-side scheduling from an experiment into a necessity.
Centersquare operates five data centers in Santa Clara. The city is one of Silicon Valley's densest data-center markets, and the municipal utility's capacity and rates directly shape technology companies' siting decisions. (GSM, based on reporting by DataCenterDynamics)
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