“You’re Building a Google in 2 Years,” Why One Energy Analyst Warns The U.S. Grid Is Not Ready For What’s Coming
An energy analyst says the AI labs themselves are engineering a power crisis that the U.S. grid cannot survive, and the race to fix it is already minting winners and losers across the market.
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