A data center wants to plug into your grid. Now what?

Data centers use a lot of electricity. A big one can use as much as a small city. Electrify is a free simulation where you run the grid yourself, so you can see the tradeoffs firsthand and show up to your next community meeting with sharper questions.

Explore the impact

Three questions worth asking

Will the lights stay on?

A huge new customer needs power every hour of every day, including the worst ones. See when the extra demand causes shortages, and what it takes to prevent them.

What will it cost?

Power plants aren’t free to build, and they aren’t free to run. Try different mixes and watch what happens to the cost of supplying electricity.

What happens to emissions?

Meeting new demand with gas looks very different from meeting it with solar, wind, and batteries. Try a few options and compare.

Play it out. Then speak up.

Pick a location near you and you’ll start with a ready-made example grid. Run it with and without data-center growth, then try different ways to meet the extra demand.

Then take what you learned to your utility and local officials, and ask how they’re planning for it.

Electrify is a simulation. It shows what's possible, but it can't predict a specific project's exact effects. About Electrify