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The Data-Center Plan Learned From the Price It Changed
Differentiating through electricity-market clearing lets a planner search where to place 50 megawatts across six candidate buses.
Summary
Differentiating through electricity-market clearing lets a planner search where to place 50 megawatts across six candidate buses.
Each forward pass clears a synthetic electricity market; reverse-mode differentiation then sends the resulting price effects back into the siting plan. Across 36 operating states in two networks, the continuous allocations nearly matched exhaustive enumeration, with worst-case gaps equal to 2.3% and 8.5% of the best-to-worst single-site cost spread. The smooth relaxation closed sites too late near discrete boundaries, a limitation the authors identify explicitly.
Why it matters
Differentiating through electricity-market clearing lets a planner search where to place 50 megawatts across six candidate buses.
Limits and context
No additional limitation was separately recorded.
Key claims
Differentiating through electricity-market clearing lets a planner search where to place 50 megawatts across six candidate buses.
Evidence: source-2026-09-03-011
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2609.02646arXiv · primary research
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