The line of projects waiting to connect to the power grid, a connection the grid calls interconnection and studies before it is made. The book’s refrain is that the queue is not a forecast. 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.
Where the record uses it
- Person Abbott, Greg
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Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Grid queue.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/grid-queue (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-grid-queue-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Grid queue}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/grid-queue},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}