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This week, AI's power problem stopped being theoretical

The biggest AI story this week was not a model release. It was electricity. In the space of a few days, the Financial Times reported that Anthropic committed about $3.4 billion to secure 1.7 gigawatts of gas-fired generators from a Texas equipment supplier, bought in late September and bundled with…

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  1. 2026-11-08 14:59 · DEV Community — AI
    This week, AI's power problem stopped being theoretical

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