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Fortune
Eva Roytburg

AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

Chinese grid (Credit: Yin Tianjie/Xinhua via Getty Images)

“Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given,” Rui Ma wrote on X after returning from a recent tour of China’s AI hubs. 

For American AI researchers, that’s almost unimaginable. In the U.S., surging AI demand is colliding with a fragile power grid, the kind of extreme bottleneck that Goldman Sachs warns could severely choke the industry’s growth.

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