Grid-forming BESS Mitigates Data Center Load Risks and Supports Grid

The paper by Yousef Abudyak, Mohsen Alizadeh and Wei Sun presents an integrated architecture to embed Grid-Forming BESS inside hyperscale data centers to mitigate abrupt AI-workload power swings and provide active grid support (submitted to arXiv 1 Feb 2026).

• Main announcement: The authors propose an integrated architecture combining Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) with Grid-Forming inverters inside data centers; MATLAB/Simulink simulations show eight coordinated BESS units supplying instantaneous power during training/checkpoint events, delivering accurate power reference tracking and reactive support similar to a Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM).
• Background and details: Results include reactive power provision under single-phase voltage depression, and seamless islanded operation with stable voltage, frequency, and continuous power delivery at the data center bus; the paper is available on arXiv (arXiv:2602.01013) and cites a DOI registered via DataCite.