{"id":985837,"date":"2026-01-16T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985837"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:03:37","slug":"google-shares-its-number-one-challenge-in-powering-up-data-centres-on-the-grid-our-hope-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/google-shares-its-number-one-challenge-in-powering-up-data-centres-on-the-grid-our-hope-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Google shares its \u2018number one challenge\u2019 in powering up data centres on the grid: \u2018Our hope is that\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Google executive has shared the primary obstacle to the company\u2019s massive artificial intelligence (AI) expansion: this isn\u2019t hardware or software but the physical wires of the American power grid. A top energy executive at the search giant revealed that wait times to connect new data centres to the electrical transmission system have skyrocketed, reaching over a decade in certain regions. Power consumption is one of the biggest bottlenecks that tech companies are facing even as their energy draw strains the grid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransmission barriers are the number one challenge we&#8217;re seeing on the grid,\u201d said Marsden Hanna, Global Head of Sustainability and Climate Policy at Google, during an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute, news agency Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google executive has shared the primary obstacle to the company\u2019s massive artificial intelligence (AI) expansion: this isn\u2019t hardware or software but the physical wires of the American power grid. A top energy executive at the search giant revealed that wait times to connect new data centres to the electrical transmission system have skyrocketed, reaching over a decade in certain regions. Power consumption is one of the biggest bottlenecks that tech companies are facing even as their energy draw strains the grid. \u201cTransmission barriers are the number one challenge we&#8217;re seeing on the grid,\u201d said Marsden Hanna, Global Head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985837","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}