The power grid can be destroyed for years. Take it seriously. A 2007 US Government test saw a generator go up in smoke when attacked by a data clip no bigger than a .gif It happened in seconds. The poison data attacked a relay and told it to do the opposite of what it should do. There's even a sobering video. The same technique was used by Russian state hackers a few years later to damage the Ukraine's electricity supply.
As the source story at WIRED says,
How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator
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