Opinion · 4 min read
The power wall: can the grid keep up with AI compute?
The bottleneck for the next phase of digital infrastructure is not chips or fibre. It is electricity.
By David Okafor · Data Centre Correspondent
Data Centre Correspondent
David tracks hyperscale and colocation capacity, power constraints and the AI build-out.
The bottleneck for the next phase of digital infrastructure is not chips or fibre. It is electricity.
By David Okafor · Data Centre Correspondent
A combination of geography, neutral exchanges and abundant power turned a single German city into the gravitational centre of European internet traffic.
By David Okafor · Data Centre Correspondent
Faced with land and power limits, Singapore paused new data-centre builds — then reopened the market on its own sustainability terms.
By David Okafor · Data Centre Correspondent