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AI datacenter boom collides with US grid reality

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Power grid operators and datacenter developers in the United States are in a bind, and energy analysts can't see an easy way out.

The American power grid is old, outdated, and in desperate need of upgrades. Add in a growing number of gigawatt-scale AI datacenters demanding stable access to power that doesn’t disrupt service-level uptime agreements and things start to look even worse.

Energy costs have already skyrocketed in the nation's largest energy market mainly thanks to the bit barn bonanza, leading to a new chorus of calls for datacenters to bring their own power generation if they want reliable supplies not bound by grid constraints.

According to energy analysts at Wood Mackenzie, datacenter operators have a choice to make, and neither option is great.

They can wait the five to 10 years it’ll take for grid operators to upgrade their transmission and generation capabilities to account for their...

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