US heatwave raises alarms over AI data centre energy demands

According to Al Jazeera, the ongoing US heatwave is exposing a critical vulnerability in American infrastructure. Artificial intelligence data centres—which demand staggering amounts of electricity for computation and cooling—are placing unprecedented strain on power grids already stressed by summer peak demand. As AI companies race to build larger and more capable models, the collision between exploding energy consumption and climate-driven grid stress is forcing a reckoning: the nation's electrical infrastructure may not be built for the scale of computing-intensive workloads that companies are planning.

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