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NEWYORKERHERALD INVESTIGATION • SPECIAL DOSSIER
The AI Power Crunch: How Surging Data Center Demand and Grid Congestion Are Testing America’s Energy Capacity
A 6-month national investigation across Northern Virginia, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest reveals how the explosive expansion of gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence compute clusters is colliding with aging transmission grids, sparking a fierce race for dedicated nuclear and geothermal energy contracts.
Investigation•Published today at 06:00 EST•9 min read