
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Academic department in Durham, North CarolinaWikipedia
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Sep 16, 2026
How to build a more flexible, quieter, less obnoxious data center
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26:02David RobertsHOST
But like your big battery, your big LFP battery, if, you know, if the grid goes out and you have to switch to the battery to reduce power draw, that's gonna run out at some point, in four hours, as I understand it, if you're running the whole data center.
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26:17David RobertsHOST
And now, of course, I read the Duke paper that everybody, the Nicholas Institute paper that everybody references, and one, [chuckles] one of the things that the Duke paper says is that the average call from a utility to a data center to reduce power is, like, two hours, is less than four hours.
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26:35David RobertsHOST
But then my question is, what if you have, like, a heat dome that lasts for a week, and so every afternoon you're called on to reduce, and then you have to recharge the battery after it goes down, but, like, the heat dome is there the whole time, and then, like, the second day you're starting from 60%, the third day you're starting from 40%.
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26:57David RobertsHOST
At what point does the battery run out and the tenant have to start cutting back on compute? How much duration can you handle, I guess, is what I'm asking.
RTO Insider Daily Headlines: September 16, 2026
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0:11speaker_0HOST
Here are today's nine stories.
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0:14speaker_1HOST
Duke's Nicholas Institute models costly restart of net zero after Trump.
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0:19speaker_1HOST
Duke University's Nicholas Institute has released a new policy brief finding that the Trump administration's abandonment of any climate mitigation efforts has made any return to such policies more expensive.
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0:30speaker_0HOST
MISO regulatory group takes break from DER survey, explores data exchange platform.
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0:37speaker_0HOST
The Organization of MISO States will not conduct its annual survey quantifying distributed energy resources across the MISO footprint in twenty twenty-six while it evaluates how to modernize it and, in a related effort, explores the creation of a centralized DER data exchange platform.