引入网络保护方案
发布是一个帮助我们未来计算校园的国家方案，支持可靠，负担得起的电力。
今天我们是发布网络保护者计划，与公用设施、监管者和决策者合作
无论是在北方寒冷中取暖还是通过南方热浪运行空调，家庭都需要可靠的电力。 我们的目标是使校园的灵活性成为公用事业在社区最需要时可以使用的资源。
美国数据中心的容量预计到2030年将超过100千兆瓦(在新窗口开放)，因此我们有机会在一代人的时间里通过建造校园来加强电网，这些校园可以在社区最需要时调整其电力使用。
格鲁吉亚是我们的起点。 通过网格保护者，我们的雄心是使这种灵活性成为我们未来校园建设和运作的核心部分。 这意味着在需要时设计减少电力使用的设施，并与公用事业合作，商定可以减少多少需求、速度和持续多长时间。 这些安排将因地点而异，我们将在最后确定后分担额外承诺。
根据当地需要和可用的设备，我们还将与电网运营商合作，提供现场发电或储存的电力，并使用电池和电能控制来平稳地改变需求。
无论需求低或高，电线、分站和其他电网基础设施都是固定成本。 通过在电网有空间时使用更多的电力，在电网紧张时减少我们的使用，我们可以帮助支付基础设施的费用，同时限制为满足高峰期需求而进行昂贵的升级的需要。 这有助于降低其他客户的成本。
美国需要更多的电力来支持经济增长，AI正在成为这一需求的重要一环。 不应该要求家庭和小企业补贴计算出来的校园电力需求。 我们一直致力于支付自己的能源成本，包括我们使用的电力和为校园服务的基础设施。 大型计算设施应支付成本，并帮助公用事业管理所依赖的系统。
对于我们规划的埃芬汉姆县校园，我们已承诺支付项目所需的全部基础设施和电力服务费用。 一旦校园开始运行，我们可以在需要的时候减少所抽取的电力，帮助为其他客户节能。
我们与Georgia Power的协议还包括(在新窗口打开)1 000兆瓦的灵活需求响应，腾出电力，帮助数十万个家庭(平均用电量为700 000个家庭)在极端高温期间维持空调。 就规模而言，这相当于大约70万个家庭的平均电力需求。 比华盛顿和波士顿加起来还要多。
这些计算设施与几年前建立的数据中心大相径庭，使我们能够灵活处理电力需求。
这意味着我们可以拒绝我们的要求，以便家庭、小企业和其他付息者能够继续拥有权力。 建设电网资产昂贵，乔治亚电力公司称这种灵活性可以减少它为服务未来增长而需要建设的新一代数量。 虽然校园仍在开发中，但我们打算让埃芬汉姆作为Grid Protections的飞行员，在已经为未来校园提供模型的协议的基础上更进一步。
想象一下度假小镇的餐厅在繁忙的季节，它需要足够的桌子和厨房空间，但它必须支付这一能力全年的费用。 常规客户帮助保持其使用，并在旅游业放缓时支付账单。 我们提议做那个普通的顾客
电力需求也随着季节而起起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起起伏起伏起伏起伏起而起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起而起伏起而起伏起伏起而起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起而起而起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起伏起而起伏起我们的校区全年都需要电力有了正确的协议，稳定的需求有助于将电网的固定成本分散到更多的电力销售中，而灵活性则让我们在系统最繁忙时降低需求。 我们还需要支付校园创建的费用；目标是让其他客户也能受益。
我们的协议也有助于格鲁吉亚大国降低客户成本的更广泛计划。 公用事业项目预计从2029年开始(在新窗口开通)，每年从包括Camellia项目在内的大型协议组合和预期增长中节省约9.5亿美元。 它估计一个典型的住客使用1000千瓦时，每月至少可得到15美元的好处。
格鲁吉亚协定是一个起点。 在OpenAI，通过我们的网格保护者计划，我们看到一个帮助社区保持灯光的机会，即使在紧急情况和需求高的时候。 我们将与公用设施、监管者和决策者合作，为今后安排的校园制定切实可行的安排，以反映地方电网需求，帮助校园在面临压力时支持电网，并支付我们创造的费用。 如果一个项目被推迟、减少或取消，长期合同和财务保证可以保护其他客户。
灵活性不能取代对新能源供应和传输的投资。 除了这些投资之外，我们的网格保护者方案可以帮助使网格更加可靠，并保护家庭和小企业不承担人工智能基础设施的费用。 这就是我们想要达到的标准我们的计算校园。
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Introducing the Grid Protectors Program
Launching a national program to help our future compute campuses support reliable, affordable electricity.
Today we’re launching the Grid Protectors Program, a national effort to support affordable, reliable electricity for families and businesses in the communities where we build. Working with utilities, regulators and policymakers, we’ll develop arrangements for our future campuses to reduce electricity demand when the grid is under strain.
Whether it’s heating homes during a northern cold snap or running air conditioning through a southern heat wave, families need reliable electricity. Our goal is to make campus flexibility a resource that utilities can call on when communities need it most.
With U.S. data center capacity projected to exceed 100 gigawatts by 2030(opens in a new window), we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to strengthen the electric grid by building campuses that can adjust their power use when communities need it most.
Georgia is our starting point. Through Grid Protectors, our ambition is to make this kind of flexibility a core part of how we build and operate future campuses. That means designing facilities to reduce electricity use when needed and working with utilities to agree on how much demand can be reduced, how quickly and for how long. The arrangements will differ by location, and we will share additional commitments as they are finalized.
Depending on local needs and the equipment available, we will also work with grid operators to supply power from on-site generation or storage, and use batteries and power controls to smooth changes in demand.
Power lines, substations and other grid infrastructure builds are a fixed cost whether demand is low or high. By using more electricity when the grid has room and reducing our use when it is under strain, we can help pay for that infrastructure while limiting the need for costly upgrades to meet peak demand. That can help keep costs down for other customers.
America needs more electricity to support economic growth, and AI is becoming a significant part of that demand. Families and small businesses should not be asked to subsidize a compute campus’s electricity needs. We’ve always been committed to paying our own energy costs, including the electricity we use and the infrastructure needed to serve our campuses. Large computing facilities should pay their costs and help utilities manage the systems they depend on.
For our planned Effingham County campus, we have committed to pay the full infrastructure and electric-service costs required to serve the project. Once the campus is operating, we can reduce the power we draw during times of need, helping preserve electricity for other customers.
Our agreement with Georgia Power also includes(opens in a new window) up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response, freeing up power to help keep air conditioning running in hundreds of thousands of homes (~700 000 households at average electricity usage) during extreme heat. For scale, that is equivalent to the average electricity demand of roughly 700,000 households. That’s more households than Washington, D.C., and Boston combined.
These compute facilities are much different than data centers built even a few years ago, allowing us to be flexible in our power demand.
This means we can turn down our demand so that families, small businesses, and other ratepayers will continue to have power. Building grid assets is expensive and Georgia Power says this flexibility can reduce the amount of new generation it needs to build to serve future growth. Although the campus is still in development, we intend for Effingham to serve as a pilot for Grid Protectors, building on an agreement that already provides a model for future campuses.
Imagine a restaurant in a vacation town. It needs enough tables and kitchen space for the busy season, but it has to pay for that capacity year-round. Regular customers help keep it in use and cover the bills when tourism slows. We are proposing to be that regular customer.
Electricity demand also rises and falls with the seasons, with different regions facing their biggest peaks at different times. Our compute campuses need power year-round. With the right agreements, that steady demand can help spread the grid’s fixed costs across more electricity sales, while flexibility lets us reduce demand when the system is busiest. We still need to pay the costs our campuses create; the goal is for other customers to benefit, too.
Our agreement also contributes to Georgia Power’s broader plan to lower costs for customers. The utility projects approximately $950 million in annual customer savings beginning in 2029(opens in a new window) from its portfolio of large-load agreements and expected growth, including Project Camellia. It estimates a benefit of at least $15 a month for a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours.
The Georgia agreement is a starting point. At OpenAI, through our Grid Protectors program, we see an opportunity to help communities keep the lights on even in times of emergency and high demand. We will work with utilities, regulators and policymakers to develop practical arrangements for the campuses we build in the future-arrangements that reflect local grid needs, help campuses support the grid when it is under pressure, and pay the costs we create. Long-term contracts and financial assurances can protect other customers if a project is delayed, reduced or canceled.
Flexibility cannot replace investment in new energy supply and transmission. Alongside those investments, our Grid Protectors program can help make the grid more reliable and protect families and small businesses from bearing the costs of AI infrastructure. That is the standard we want our compute campuses to meet.
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