Andrew Freedman, "AI advances may frustrate U.S. climate goals as electric demand surges" https://axios.com/2024/04/26/ai-boom-electricity-demand-surge

«[T]he biggest challenge facing utilities is building new infrastructure to meet rapidly growing energy demands.

This is partly because it can take a decade in the U.S. to approve new transmission lines, whereas data centers can be approved and built within 18 to 24 months.»

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