Heat dome: dispatch desks get crushed first

Heat dome demand spikes hit dispatch desks first, and that’s where the human-heavy layer starts getting squeezed. PJM hit about 154,000 megawatts in 2024, and ERCOT topped 85,000, so the bottleneck isn’t the weather — it’s the dispatch layer. The real question is whether dispatch stays the brain, or gets reduced to routing while AI handles the load. Watch the full Short, then pick a side: is dispatch still a real job, or just the first one to get automated?