In r/wallstreetbets, the AI data center capex boom is reframed as an electricity and hardware bottleneck story, with posters pointing to transformer and switchgear shortages and political backlash risk from brownouts.
Nearly half of planned US data centers have been delayed or canceled limited by shortages of power
Companies like Amazon, Oracle, Meta, Google, and OpenAI have committed over 600B this year to building out datacenters.
However, electrical power components like transformers, switchgears, and batteries, are not able to keep up with demand.
I wonder how many states promised to provide infrastructure then backed out when they learned how politically unpopular brownouts are.
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