{"id":445,"date":"2025-08-18T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibpm.nl\/?p=445"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:37:20","slug":"ai-experts-return-from-china-stunned-the-u-s-grid-is-so-weak-the-race-may-already-be-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/ai-experts-return-from-china-stunned-the-u-s-grid-is-so-weak-the-race-may-already-be-over\/","title":{"rendered":"AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.25\">China\u2019s AI growth ben\u00ade\u00adfits from decades of over\u00adbuilt, state-planned ener\u00adgy infra\u00adstruc\u00adture, ensur\u00ading abun\u00addant, sta\u00adble electricity\u2014often dou\u00adble the nation\u2019s needs. This con\u00adtrasts sharply with the U.S., where surg\u00ading AI demand strains an aging, frag\u00adment\u00aded grid, prompt\u00ading cost\u00adly workarounds and polit\u00adi\u00adcal fights. Chi\u00adna treats AI data cen\u00adters as a&nbsp;way to use sur\u00adplus pow\u00ader, while U.S. projects face delays, short-term invest\u00adment hori\u00adzons, and pub\u00adlic resis\u00adtance. Experts warn the U.S. risks falling fur\u00adther behind unless it reforms how it funds, plans, and builds large-scale ener\u00adgy capac\u00adi\u00adty. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/08\/14\/data-centers-china-grid-us-infrastructure\/\">For\u00adtune<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s AI growth ben\u00ade\u00adfits from decades of over\u00adbuilt, state-planned ener\u00adgy infra\u00adstruc\u00adture, ensur\u00ading abun\u00addant, sta\u00adble electricity\u2014often dou\u00adble the nation\u2019s needs. This con\u00adtrasts sharply with the U.S., where surg\u00ading AI demand strains an aging, frag\u00adment\u00aded grid, prompt\u00ading cost\u00adly workarounds and polit\u00adi\u00adcal fights. Chi\u00adna treats AI data cen\u00adters as a&nbsp;way to use sur\u00adplus pow\u00ader, while U.S. projects face [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-economy","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibpm.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}