{"id":1027834,"date":"2026-08-11T07:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027834"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:06:44","slug":"ais-volatile-power-demand-is-damaging-its-own-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/ais-volatile-power-demand-is-damaging-its-own-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"AI\u2019s volatile power demand is damaging its own data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid swings in AI data centers&#8217; power demands are straining vital equipment, causing batteries, generators and cooling systems to malfunction or wear out far sooner than expected. <\/p>\n<p>As the AI boom accelerates, these technical problems suggest added costs and unforeseen reliability problems, with even a few minutes of lost uptime hitting data-center developers\u2019 revenue. They come at a time when investors and lenders are already jittery about hyperscalers\u2019 hundreds of billions of dollars of spending, amid growing concerns that these facilities could be depreciating much faster than estimated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid swings in AI data centers&#8217; power demands are straining vital equipment, causing batteries, generators and cooling systems to malfunction or wear out far sooner than expected. As the AI boom accelerates, these technical problems suggest added costs and unforeseen reliability problems, with even a few minutes of lost uptime hitting data-center developers\u2019 revenue. They come at a time when investors and lenders are already jittery about hyperscalers\u2019 hundreds of billions of dollars of spending, amid growing concerns that these facilities could be depreciating much faster than estimated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027856,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027834\/revisions\/1027856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}