Furthermore, many markets grant Capacity Payments to eligible generators and interconnectors for being available to follow dispatch instructions, irrespective of actual generation. VICs would also be eligible to receive such payments but they should be directly to the VICO rather than any users. This allows users to bid without the influence of capacity payments and rewards the datacenters providing the VIC.
Under this scenario, a grid operator would pay a datacentre to be prepared to switch off local physical load.
The load would still be served through, albeit on a different grid or grid region where you didn't have the same strains on the electricity network.