Powering the AI gold rush: New strategies beyond grid connections

July 17, 2026

Steven Carlini

The unexpected, accelerated growth in AI data center demand sparked a gold rush for grid connections among data center operators. But they quickly ran into a major roadblock: There isn’t enough power to meet all connection requests, leading to lengthy queues, with some waitlists stretching...

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