Tag: power grids

Cloud Tenants Can Disrupt Power Grids With GPU Workloads

Researchers at Zhejiang University have made a startling discovery: ordinary GPU workloads in the cloud can be manipulated to disrupt power grids, and they've backed it up with measurements and simulations. By exploiting the link between a GPU's power draw and its computing activity, malicious cloud tenants can unwittingly - or intentionally - cause power grid instability.