\u200bA cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center’s power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in.<\/p>\n
That is the claim behind Bit2Watt, described by three Zhejiang University researchers in a paper accepted to CHES 2026, the IACR’s hardware-security conference, and the evidence splits in two: they measured the power\u00a0A cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center’s power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in.<\/p>\n
That is the claim behind Bit2Watt, described by three Zhejiang University researchers in a paper accepted to CHES 2026, the IACR’s hardware-security conference, and the evidence splits in two: they measured the power\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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