Tech Companies Are Now Bidding Against Power Utilities for Gas Turbines

The AI infrastructure bottleneck has moved from GPUs to electricity, with data center operators competing for the same generation equipment as the utilities themselves.

The bottleneck for AI has quietly moved down the stack from chips to power generation. As flagged by @4thQuadAM, technology companies are now competing for the same gas turbines as power producers, driven by data center demand — a striking sign that the constraint is no longer silicon but the electricity to run it.

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