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The Grid Squeeze: How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Energy

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AI's hunger for electricity is reaching a breaking point. As demand outstrips the capacity of the traditional US utility grid, the world's largest tech giants are taking matters into their own hands—repurposing dormant coal plants and funding experimental small modular nuclear reactors. This is the