Description
Who stays on. Who goes dark. And who decides.
The Grid follows one record-breaking heat wave as a regional power grid serving five states is pushed to the edge of collapse. When demand runs past every forecast, grid operator Mara Vance has to order rolling blackouts. Factories, neighborhoods and whole towns go dark. Axiom Campus 7, an artificial-intelligence data center drawing nearly 1,500 megawatts, stays on.
When the public learns the campus could have cut its power all along, outrage follows. A second, larger heat wave is forecast just seven days away. Mara now has to decide who carries the burden when there isn’t enough power for everyone. One of the plants in the next blackout zone belongs to her brother.
What starts as a technical emergency becomes a fight over fairness, corporate power, public trust, family loyalty and who really has the authority to keep the lights on.
When the power runs out, who decides who goes dark?
[Pages: 320]
