U.S. power, tech companies lament snags in meeting AI energy needs

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Layers of regulations, citing and permitting processes, and frequent legal fights brought by environmental and community groups, have slowed new power projects from connecting to the grid

U.S. electrical systems are not expanding fast enough to meet rapidly growing power needs of technology like Generative AI, prompting data center businesses to sometimes bypass utilities, executives said at an energy conference this week.

The delays have led data center businesses to bypass utilities and strike deals directly with power generators or build their own supply. Among its considerations for electricity, Aligned is looking at using small modular reactors, or a type nuclear energy system that is currently in development in the United States, to power some of its projects, and is working with utilities on projects when possible, Lawson-Shanks said. “Where we can’t, we will have to have them behind the meter,” he added.

 

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