AI Just Put a $5 Million-a-Day Price Tag on Its Biggest Bottleneck

The companies racing to build artificial intelligence (AI) have found a blunt way to say “hurry up.” They now demand $5 million or more for every day a data center opens late. The builders pay that bill, along with anyone who owns a piece of them. This spring, one tenant asked for $1 million a day, The Information reported. Why Power, Not Chips, Is Holding AI Back AI headlines focus on chips. A building full of chips is useless without electricity. Power is the main obstacle to new data centers, energy research firm Currence found in July, Network World reported . How a One-Year Delay Becomes 640 Days of Free Rent SoftBank-backed SB Energy is building a 10-gigawatt campus in Ohio for OpenAI.

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