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The AI Race Is Pressuring Utilities to Squeeze More From Europe’s Power Grids

Wired · Joel Khalili · last updated

As data center developers queue up to connect to power grids across Europe, network operators are experimenting with novel ways of clearing room for them.

European countries are racing to bring new data centers online as AI labs across the globe continue to demand more compute. The primary limiting factor is energy—and specifically the ability to move it.

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