Chapter 04 / Load Flow / Upper Deck Demand
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Telemetry readout: four-hour climb

Demand doesn’t spike — it climbs the stacks.

Lowerlight traces usage by deck band after midnight; the hot line keeps rising while street-level traffic drains into the rain.

Normalized request load by arcology band
Primary line: upper decks · Cyan line: street grid baseline
78%
+31 pts after 18:00
80% 65% 50% 35% 20% 20:10 / deck load 78% Upper bands carry the night shift. 00:00 04:00 08:00 12:00 16:00 20:00 24:00 Upper decks Street grid
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