The On-Site Power Rush: How AI Data Centers Are Creatively Bypassing the Grid with Jet Engines and Other Unconventional Equipment
The data center industry faces a severe power shortage. Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) compute capacity is growing exponentially, fueled by the generative AI (GenA)) boom and the rollout of power-hungry GPU clusters. Meanwhile, the supply of reliable electricity is limited by an aging utility grid that expands slowly and is weighed down by bureaucratic…