{"id":28342,"date":"2025-07-28T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28342\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:47:07","slug":"how-big-tech-plans-to-feed-ais-voracious-appetite-for-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28342\/","title":{"rendered":"How big tech plans to feed AI\u2019s voracious appetite for power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">America\u2019s tech giants are masters of the digital realm. Yet as they bet stupendous sums on artificial intelligence (ai), their ambitions are facing constraints in the physical world. Shortages of chips and data-centre equipment such as transformers and switching gear mean soaring prices and lengthy waits. Just as pressing is access to energy as utilities struggle to match the demands of Silicon Valley. On July 24th President Donald Trump published an \u201cai action plan\u201d which describes America\u2019s stagnating energy capacity as a threat to the country\u2019s \u201cai dominance\u201d. How is big tech coping with a worsening power crunch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America\u2019s tech giants are masters of the digital realm. Yet as they bet stupendous sums on artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[254,64,63,99,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-28342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-computing","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}