{"id":985839,"date":"2026-01-16T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985839"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:04:33","slug":"google-exec-sounds-big-alarm-on-the-biggest-problem-ai-industry-is-america-is-facing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/google-exec-sounds-big-alarm-on-the-biggest-problem-ai-industry-is-america-is-facing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google exec sounds big alarm on the \u2018biggest problem\u2019 AI industry is America is facing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Google executive has now raised an alarm over America\u2019s ability to power the artificial intelligence boom. Marsden Hanna, Google\u2019s Global Head of Sustainability and Climate Policy has warned that the US electrical grid is the single biggest obstacle to data centre expansion. As reported by Reuters, speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event, Hanna said that delays in connecting new data centers to the grid are stretching into years and even more than a decade in some regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransmission barriers are the number one challenge we\u2019re seeing on the grid,\u201d Hanna said. \u201cWe had one utility who told us 12 years to study the interconnection timeline, which is sort of wild, but that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Google executive has now raised an alarm over America\u2019s ability to power the artificial intelligence boom. Marsden Hanna, Google\u2019s Global Head of Sustainability and Climate Policy has warned that the US electrical grid is the single biggest obstacle to data centre expansion. As reported by Reuters, speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event, Hanna said that delays in connecting new data centers to the grid are stretching into years and even more than a decade in some regions. \u201cTransmission barriers are the number one challenge we\u2019re seeing on the grid,\u201d Hanna said. \u201cWe had one utility who told [&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-985839","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\/985839","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=985839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}