The Energy Transition Deferred: Dr. Jesse Jenkins On The Race For More Power (In-Person)

The AI buildout has a bottleneck, and it isn't chips. It's power. Interconnection queues stretch for years, deals get signed under NDAs, and roughly 70% of Americans now oppose data centers in their own communities, with opposition crossing party lines. The energy transition everyone was promised keeps getting deferred by the race to feed the models. Yet new Princeton research points to an escape hatch. A 500-megawatt data center able to flex its grid demand for less than 1% of the year can r...