Grid Bottlenecks Stall AI: Interconnection Queues Surge to 45 Months
PeterDiamandis · x · 2026-08-18
Peter Diamandis argues that the current bottleneck for AI growth is the power grid. Interconnection queues have surged from 15 months twenty years ago to 45 months today. He highlights that physical transmission infrastructure has not become an exponential technology, unlike other tech sectors, creating a major hurdle for scaling AI compute.
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