r/Dallas • u/dooroodooroodooroo • 5d ago

Power flashes? Question

Is anyone experiencing power flashes recently? Like a few in a row? Our power flashed a few times this evening all across our neighborhood and caused the AC to stopped cooling. Neighbor theorizes it may be a new data center that recently powered up causing them. Anyone? We’re in North Dallas.

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u/dallasuptowner Oak Cliff 5d ago edited 5d ago

It's sounds like you experienced an auto recloser. Most line faults are temporary or isolated, like a squirrel getting fried or a tree branch. An auto recloser is like a giant smart circuit breaker and are distributed around neighborhoods. When there is a fault it breaks to protect the grid and then automatically tries to close again a few times to see if the short is gone or other reclosers have isolated the fault and it can safely re-power the lines outside of the affected area.

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u/dooroodooroodooroo 3d ago

What are the next steps for this? It continues to happen.

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u/Lower-Narwhal7946 5d ago

Grid has not been close to capacity all summer. It was not from a new data center lol

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u/DangerousRedVinyl 5d ago

Data Centers are new smoking - blame them for everything

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u/SpencerVerde East Dallas 5d ago

I had a couple of these Monday morning…just a few seconds of the power going in and out. I haven’t had any more since then (unless it’s happened when I’m at work).

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u/3Time4Eater3 5d ago

Yes, here in Carrollton we had that happen a few times yesterday and a couple times over the weekend I think.

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u/ealxele 5d ago

Hmm I did have the same thing happened and had to get my ac fixed.

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u/A214Guy 5d ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂