{"id":981880,"date":"2025-12-24T08:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981880"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:58:38","slug":"the-pentagon-and-ai-giants-have-a-weakness-both-need-chinas-batteries-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/the-pentagon-and-ai-giants-have-a-weakness-both-need-chinas-batteries-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon and AI giants have a weakness. Both need China&#8217;s batteries, badly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In northern Virginia&#8217;s Data Center Alley, windowless buildings the size of aircraft hangars are powering the United States&#8217; artificial intelligence industry, which is locked in a race against China.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, these data centers are increasingly reliant on China, the U.S.&#8217;s geopolitical rival, for a vital technology: batteries.<\/p>\n<p>These facilities can use as much electricity as a small city, straining local power grids. Even flickers can have cascading effects, corrupting sensitive AI computer coding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In northern Virginia&#8217;s Data Center Alley, windowless buildings the size of aircraft hangars are powering the United States&#8217; artificial intelligence industry, which is locked in a race against China. Yet, these data centers are increasingly reliant on China, the U.S.&#8217;s geopolitical rival, for a vital technology: batteries. These facilities can use as much electricity as a small city, straining local power grids. Even flickers can have cascading effects, corrupting sensitive AI computer coding.<\/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-981880","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\/981880","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=981880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}