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Recent Examples of brownout
Yet, concerns about the impacts of data centers on the electrical grid and local resources, leading to possible blackouts or brownouts, have started to cause community pushback.
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Sheila Rohra,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2026
The issue of grid reliability and security becomes more pressing—utilities are worried about outages and brownouts, which used to be a summer cooling-season problem but could now occur in winter too.
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Michaila Byrne,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Nov. 2025
But even though the recent closures might most directly affect Fire Station 21, all 26 of Oakland’s fire stations feel the ripple effect of each brownout.
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Connor Letourneau,
San Francisco Chronicle,
6 Feb. 2025
In areas where our UDC system has been deployed, the grid operator instead institutes a brownout, cutting power by 90 percent.
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IEEE Spectrum,
31 Jan. 2017
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Sheila Rohra,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2026
The issue of grid reliability and security becomes more pressing—utilities are worried about outages and brownouts, which used to be a summer cooling-season problem but could now occur in winter too.
—
Michaila Byrne,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Nov. 2025
But even though the recent closures might most directly affect Fire Station 21, all 26 of Oakland’s fire stations feel the ripple effect of each brownout.
—
Connor Letourneau,
San Francisco Chronicle,
6 Feb. 2025
In areas where our UDC system has been deployed, the grid operator instead institutes a brownout, cutting power by 90 percent.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
31 Jan. 2017
See All Example Sentences for brownout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brownout
Noun
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In recent years, carriage negotiations have led to temporary channel blackouts between Disney and services such as YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream, highlighting the high stakes of content licensing deals.
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Rivals are moving fast because a blackout, however brief, becomes an opportunity for everyone else.
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As the clock strikes midnight on Saturday, July 4, ABC News will bring audiences to the first parade in the nation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
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The mountain cams showed a blob of headlamp light near the summit at midnight, above the last rocky section on the Stüdlgrat.
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“Brownout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brownout. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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