An Atlanta computing hall built for an estimated 304,279 chips skipped backup generators entirely, and engineers say the local power grid alone keeps it running at four nines reliability

Picture a building longer than three football fields, packed floor to ceiling with glowing server racks, yet nowhere inside it is a diesel generator…

Data center server racks relying on grid power with no backup generators
Technology · Hugo Rojas · October 29, 2026
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