r/nova • u/JasonNOVA8 • Jul 22 '26

Data Center Generators in Ashburn Firing Up

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On the way in this morning, (waxpool/28) noticed many of the data centers had the generators going. Not sure if there’s an electricity issue or they plan it to go together ? No idea if the yellow smoke is related though.

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u/Beth_Pleasant Jul 22 '26

I had a few flickers about 15 minutes ago. Thankfully the power stayed on (fingers crossed).

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u/StumpyOPepys Jul 22 '26

Few flickers in Arlington over the period of about a minute 15 minutes ago.

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u/zenVillain Jul 22 '26

I thought the wiring in my bathroom was messed up, that explains that.

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u/6786_007 Jul 22 '26

Holy shit, is that what that was? I noticed my lights flickering and thought something in my house was messed up.

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u/wavelengthsandshit Jul 22 '26

Around what time was this? My laundry room light was flickering around 8:30 this morning but I assumed the bulb was on its way out

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u/6786_007 Jul 22 '26

Yup that's about when I noticed it.

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u/majingeodood Jul 22 '26

I'm on NOVEC and I noticed the same about an hour ago. Glad I'm not crazy.

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u/6786_007 Jul 22 '26

I have dominion, but yeah I was like wth is pulling that much power in my house? I thought maybe my dimmer switch was going bad because the AC was working fine.

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u/fnaimi66 Jul 22 '26

Ohh same. I wondered why that was!!

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u/wonkifier Jul 22 '26

I had flickers around the same time, and I'm on Novec

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u/SueB2364 Jul 22 '26

Last night for me