The Gigawatt Crunch: How the AI Infrastructure Boom is Forcing a High-Stakes Collision Between Tech and the Power Grid
By Drew Robb Special Technology & Energy Report Executive Overview The rapid, relentless acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered an unprecedented infrastructural bottleneck. Across the globe, data center power demands are soaring past historical baselines, projected to shatter the 200-gigawatt (GW) threshold by 2030. What was once a routine utility connection for a 20-to-40-megawatt…
