{"id":234663,"date":"2026-04-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/there-are-fixes-for-ais-toll-on-the-power-grid-heres-why-theyre-not-happening\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:10:18","slug":"there-are-fixes-for-ais-toll-on-the-power-grid-heres-why-theyre-not-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/there-are-fixes-for-ais-toll-on-the-power-grid-heres-why-theyre-not-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"There are fixes for AI\u2019s toll on the power grid. Here\u2019s why they\u2019re not happening"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are fixes for AI\u2019s toll on the power grid. Here\u2019s why they\u2019re not happening<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/23\/business\/ai-compute-power-electricity-grid<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-23 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\n Tech companies charging ahead with artificial intelligence have a problem: AI\u2019s rapid growth is colliding headlong with a finite amount of available energy and computing power.\n <\/p>\n

\n AI is evolving beyond chatbots and into autonomous AI agents that demand far more computing power and electricity, leaving companies scrambling for more energy. OpenAI recently shuttered its video-generating app Sora, in part because it was gobbling up the company\u2019s computational supplies.\n <\/p>\n

\n The data centers that make up the backbone of AI technology need loads of energy \u2013 both to keep their servers humming and to prevent overheating. But the United States\u2019 electrical grid isn\u2019t exactly up to the task of powering the 21st century economy. It\u2019s old and janky \u2013 a loosely connected collection of three grids: East, West and Texas. Experts have long warned that it is outdated and ill-equipped to respond to everything from severe weather to AI\u2019s insatiable new power demand.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cBasically, we have run out of headroom, largely speaking, in the US,\u201d said Ben Hertz-Shargel, an expert on electrification and data centers at energy research firm Wood Mackenzie. \u201cThere is a land grab happening, where companies believe that access to more capacity for compute will be necessary to win the future battle over AI services.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta are ramping up investments in data centers and electricity generation to power new AI models and services, betting that more energy will be needed to keep up with future AI-drive products. OpenAI last year warned the White House of an \u201celectron gap\u201d that puts US leadership in AI at risk, writing that \u201celectrons are the new oil.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Elon Musk, CEO of xAI, Tesla and SpaceX, said at the World Economic Forum in January…<\/p>\n

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