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SEM Chapter 8 Officers AdCom meeting: Contact Scott Lytle: [email protected] for details and Teleconference phone information. Co-sponsored by: Scott Lytle Agenda: Agenda on-line: Contact Steve Tomba [email protected] for details. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/451657

The rapid proliferation of data centers is placing unprecedented strain on power grid operations. This presentation examines the energy demand challenges data centers pose to grid infrastructure, including skyrocketing electricity consumption, peak load pressures, and the risk of grid instability in capacity-constrained regions. We explore how data centers’ 24/7 power requirements exacerbate grid reliability issues and drive up operational costs for utilities and operators alike. Solutions such as demand response programs, microgrids, optimized load balancing, and small modular reactors (SMRs) will be discussed to mitigate these challenges. By aligning data center energy needs with grid capabilities, operators can enhance reliability, reduce costs, and support sustainable grid operations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 Location: WebEx 📆 Date: December 11th, 2025 🕙 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 🧑‍🎓 Open to all Meeting link: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/j.php?MTID=md38157f984ea1334d177ff6aa426add8 Meeting number: 2534 798 0824 Meeting password: mFm2mwyEx92 Join from a video system or application Dial [email protected] You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number. Join by phone +1-415-655-0002 Toll 1-855-282-6330 Toll Free Access code: 25347980824 Global call-in numbers https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/globalcallin.php?MTID=m5e4dc0d0ff518865be63e89feff93b70 Toll-free calling restrictions https://cisco.com/go/tollfree-restrictions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Speaker(s): Dr. Jianhui Wang, Agenda: 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM Welcome 11:10 AM – 11:50 AM Navigating Grid Operations: Addressing Energy Demand Challenges from Data Centers 11:50 AM – 12:00 PM Questions, Wrap-up Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/520566