The Unseen Cost of AI's Electric Dreams As the tech industry continues to innovate at breakneck pace, a more mundane trend is unfolding in Silicon Valley.
Behind the glamour of generative models and neural networks lies a reality that is both prosaic and significant: the construction industry is on the cusp of an unprecedented boom.
The likes of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle are racing to build data centers to house their AI ambitions, but in doing so, they're discovering that powering these behemoths requires industrial scale engineering previously unimaginable.