Google exec sounds big alarm on the ‘biggest problem’ AI industry is America is facing

A senior Google executive has now raised an alarm over America’s ability to power the artificial intelligence boom. Marsden Hanna, Google’s Global Head of Sustainability and Climate Policy has warned that the US electrical grid is the single biggest obstacle to data centre expansion. As reported by Reuters, speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event, Hanna said that delays in connecting new data centers to the grid are stretching into years and even more than a decade in some regions.

“Transmission barriers are the number one challenge we’re seeing on the grid,” Hanna said. “We had one utility who told us 12 years to study the interconnection timeline, which is sort of wild, but that’s what we’re seeing.”