Powering the AI revolution: Inside the grid, thermal, and interconnect challenges limiting data center growth
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The constraint on AI scale is shifting from GPUs to grid, cooling, and interconnect physics—power, heat, and latency now belong in your product roadmap, not just your infra team’s backlog. If your AI strategy assumes infinite cloud elasticity, start modeling caps on capacity, siting delays, and higher unit costs over the next 12–24 months.
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