AI data center boom shifts bottleneck from chips to power

AI data centre demand has outpaced chip supply as the primary constraint; power infrastructure—generation, distribution, cooling—is now the binding bottleneck limiting deployment velocity. Major cloud providers and chip makers are competing for grid capacity and renewable energy contracts.

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