The AI revolution has a power problem
SAN FRANCISCO: In the race for artificial intelligence dominance, America’s tech giants have the money and the brands, but their ambitions have hit a new roadblock: electricity. “The biggest problem we’re facing right now is not over-consumption of computing, it’s power and the ability to do builds fast enough near power,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admitted in a recent podcast with OpenAI head Sam Altman. “If you can’t do that, you might actually have a bunch of chips in stock that I can’t connect,” Nadella added. Echoing the 1990s dotcom frenzy to build internet infrastructure, today’s tech giants are spending












