Grid Care tells Utah regulators AI, 'qualified flexibility' can unlock transmission capacity for data centers
Grid Care told the Utah Public Service Commission that AI-driven analysis and a framework for 'reliability‑backed' customer flexibility could open existing transmission capacity — estimating a U.S. planning‑peak utilization upper bound near 32% and proposing hour‑based interconnection offers for large loads.
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Grid Care co‑founder and CTO Ran Rajikop told the Utah Public Service Commission that a Stanford‑linked study and Grid Care’s own modeling put a U.S. planning‑peak transmission‑utilization upper bound near 32%, and that raising that utilization through qualified, reliability‑backed flexibility could free hundreds of gigawatts of capacity.
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