Researchers show a cloud tenant could use ordinary GPU workloads to strain the power grid, an attack dubbed Bit2Watt. The worst numbers are simulated, though.

Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy

Bit2Watt uses ordinary cloud GPU workloads to modulate power, with worst-case simulations showing grid instability across 1,000 synchronized GPUs.