Electricity Shortages Threaten to Pull the Plug on AI Expansion

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Big Tech is building data centers everywhere it can. Companies are replacing employees with AI—and all this is just the start; or it would be, if there was enough electricity to power all those data centers that handle the AI that everyone is using more and more. That might be a problem. Earlier this month, Nvidia’s chief executive warned that the West risks losing the AI race because electricity was too expensive. Yet the price of electricity is only one part of the problem that Big Tech faces with regard to its AI plans. The other…