Read this article online.

Over roughly the past decade, awareness has grown about the aging power infrastructure and how it could soon hit a critical tipping point. Much of it is 50 to 75 years old and has been struggling to keep up with rapidly rising power demands. By any definition, it’s operating at close to full capacity, and the expansion of electric vehicles (EVs), data centers, smart homes, crypto mining, and other extreme power-consuming technologies adding even more pressure.

Perhaps at the top of the pyramid is the mega-data center. Such installations, driven by AI, place massive and unprecedented pressure on the electric grid. By 2030, data centers are predicted to consume 9% to 12% of the nation’s total electricity. A single modern AI data center can use as much electricity as 100,000+ homes.