Powering AI is an architecture problem
Original publisher: MIT Technology Review (www.technologyreview.com)
Canonical URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/10/1141649/powering-ai-is-an-architecture-problem/
Summary excerpt
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500…
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