Power outage knocks 3 GW of data centers offline as China’s AI progress pressures US spending
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-07-26
A French-language post says a power-line outage near Washington caused more than 3 GW of data centers to drop offline, and it took the grid over 10 minutes to return to normal.
The same thread argues that China’s AI progress is pushing the US to rethink how much it spends on chips and data centers. The race is described as not only technological, but also financial and geopolitical.
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