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Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 week ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Reminds me of the August 2025 paper:
"Power Stabilization for AI Training Datacenters"
(Link to the PDF https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14318)
(Link to a HTML page https://arxiv.org/html/2508.14318v1)

The paper describes how coordinated AI loads can hammer on and destroy power infrastructure.