The $1 Trillion Data Center Boom Is Breaking the Grid
The AI data center boom has officially gone parabolic: global spending is crossing the $1 trillion mark in 2026, power demand is set to double, and the grid can't cope.
Photon Guy
Photon Guy writes at the intersection of particle physics and heavy computing infrastructure. He spent years at CERN working on silicon particle detectors — the sensors that catch what the world's largest accelerators smash together — before moving into the data center industry, where he works on the machines that power the internet and AI. ScienceShot is where those two worlds meet: real physics, real engineering, strong opinions, and no press-release rewrites.
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