Ohio bill would let utilities throttle customers' thermostats and water heaters

> An Ohio lawmaker wants to reintroduce an electricity peak demand program for small commercial and residential consumers, which would likely flatten their current bills and could create further financial incentives down the line, he said.

> “If we want to attract more business to Ohio, if we want to have the data centers here, if we don’t want rolling blackouts, we’re going to have to look at a number of creative things,” he said in an interview Friday. “This is one of them we know works because the (large) commercials use it.”

How many little customers do you need to throttle, to "save" enough energy for just one large DC?

Ok. Start with all new datacenters. Require them to be built with infrastructure that allows for throttling of servers to occur when the utilities want to throttle.

Does the EU do something similar?

I don’t live in Ohio but I’d be mad if I’m at home sweating so some corp that harvested my data can keep their servers cool.