Can a cloud tenant really black out the power grid? We asked the Bit2Watt researchers. Their answer 🠒 the scariest result only works if thousands of GPUs spike their power at the same instant, and in reality they never line up that cleanly, which blunts the attack. Also notable: they didn't warn any cloud provider first, because there's no product bug to patch. Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-bit2watt-attack-could-let-cloud.html

<p>Can a cloud tenant really black out the power grid? We asked the Bit2Watt researchers.<br /> <br /> Their answer 🠒 the scariest result only works if thousands of GPUs spike their power at the same instant, and in reality they never line up that cleanly, which blunts the attack.<br /> <br /> Also notable: they didn't warn any cloud provider first, because there's no product bug to patch.<br /> <br /> Read: <a href="https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-bit2watt-attack-could-let-cloud.html">thehackernews.com/2026/07/ne…</a></p> <img src="https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FHOI6Sx5asAAEuRF.jpg" />…