AI, Climate Change Are Creating a Perfect Storm for US Power Grids
THE SO WHAT
AI-driven load growth stacked on climate volatility turns the grid into a first-order dependency, not background infrastructure. If your roadmap assumes always-on cloud, start mapping workloads that can tolerate interruption or relocation — resilience planning just moved up the agenda.
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