US power firms scramble for transformers and turbines as data centres strain supply
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AI data centers are now competing with the grid itself — multi-year lead times for transformers and turbines turn power into a hard bottleneck. If your roadmap depends on new data center capacity in the US, you need a power procurement and permitting strategy as serious as your chip plan.
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