Flex CEO: fix the grid or 'forget all the frontier models' — chips take 5 years, grids take decades
fortune · reddit · 2026-10-20
Flex CEO Revathi Advaithi warned at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit that America's power grid isn't ready for AI: "if you don't get the energy infrastructure and the grid ready, forget all the frontier models and forget all the semiconductors." She noted a chip takes 5 years to develop while a grid takes decades to build.
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