{"id":985515,"date":"2026-01-16T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985515"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:55:04","slug":"google-says-us-transmission-system-is-biggest-challenge-for-connecting-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/google-says-us-transmission-system-is-biggest-challenge-for-connecting-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says US transmission system is biggest challenge for connecting data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting to the U.S. electrical transmission system has become the \u200dbiggest problem for powering up Google data centers on the grid, as the wait times \u2060to connect surge to more than a decade in some parts of the country, an energy executive with Google said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest technology companies are running up against the realities \u200cof the \u200ccountry&#8217;s slow-moving power system as they race to access vast amounts of electricity for the expansion of energy-intensive \u200cdata centers, which are increasingly being used to train and roll out artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting to the U.S. electrical transmission system has become the \u200dbiggest problem for powering up Google data centers on the grid, as the wait times \u2060to connect surge to more than a decade in some parts of the country, an energy executive with Google said on Wednesday. The world&#8217;s largest technology companies are running up against the realities \u200cof the \u200ccountry&#8217;s slow-moving power system as they race to access vast amounts of electricity for the expansion of energy-intensive \u200cdata centers, which are increasingly being used to train and roll out artificial intelligence.<\/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-985515","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\/985515","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=985515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}