2,600 Gigawatts Are Waiting. The Transformers Aren't Coming.
2,600 gigawatts are waiting. The transformers aren’t coming. A facilities engineer at a mid-tier cloud provider in central Texas has spent eleven months waiting for a grid interconnection agreement on a 150-megawatt data center expansion. The substation is visible from the parking lot. The fiber is lit. The servers are purchased. But the building sits half-empty because the local utility cannot schedule the transformer upgrade that would let the facility draw its full load. ...