{"id":1038224,"date":"2026-09-24T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038224"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:36:29","slug":"us-faces-ai-power-crunch-5-ways-america-is-rebuilding-its-energy-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/us-faces-ai-power-crunch-5-ways-america-is-rebuilding-its-energy-system\/","title":{"rendered":"US faces AI power crunch: 5 ways America is rebuilding its energy system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is creating a new electricity challenge for the United States. AI data centres need huge amounts of power to train and run models, pushing utilities, technology companies and policymakers to find new ways to generate and deliver electricity. <\/p>\n<p>The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects electricity consumption to hit a record 4,270 billion kWh in 2026, up from 4,195 billion kWh in 2025. It expects demand to rise further to 4,349 billion kWh in 2027. AI-focused data centres, along with the wider electrification of homes and transport, are among the key drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is creating a new electricity challenge for the United States. AI data centres need huge amounts of power to train and run models, pushing utilities, technology companies and policymakers to find new ways to generate and deliver electricity. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects electricity consumption to hit a record 4,270 billion kWh in 2026, up from 4,195 billion kWh in 2025. It expects demand to rise further to 4,349 billion kWh in 2027. AI-focused data centres, along with the wider electrification of homes and transport, are among the key drivers.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038224","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=1038224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038271,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038224\/revisions\/1038271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}