Cutting back a load’s power when the grid is short, as in the system’s highest hours. A new load can agree to it in advance, and demand response is the same agreement from the customer’s side. Chapter 6.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 6 — Firm, Around-the-Clock
Where the electricity comes from: grid queues, transformers, turbines and the firm power a datacenter needs every hour of the year, on calendars the buildout does not control.
Also discussed in
- Dated test Chapter 6, firm service is the constraint
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Curtailment.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/curtailment (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-curtailment-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Curtailment}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/curtailment},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}