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The next AI bottleneck is not model quality; it is the physical infrastructure needed to keep adding compute without breaking local grids and water systems.
New York\u2019s first statewide data center moratorium shows that AI load growth has become a statehouse fight over ratepayer protection, grid capacity, and who gets to absorb the cost of scale.
Ars Technica’s reporting on Google’s 2025 power use shows why AI infrastructure is colliding with utilities, siting, and carbon goals.
A Georgia data-center water dispute shows why AI infrastructure must make local utility impacts visible before trust collapses.
Panthalassa raised $140 million to build wave-powered AI inference nodes at sea, a sign of how far the compute bottleneck is pushing infrastructure.