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Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from China — the AI build-out flips the breakers (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

It's a planning thing. My company has sewed up power capacity contracts with the utility providers very early in the process. We have outstanding capacity contracts available for future build out commitments. It's the folks late to the party that are starting projects without a plan and then failing.