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The AI infrastructure bottleneck is increasingly physical: while chipmakers can scale advanced AI silicon, utility interconnection timelines for new data centers are commonly 3–5 years. This likely slows hyperscaler data center buildouts and adds execution risk to near-term AI capacity expansion plans. The news is a headwind for AI rollouts despite continued progress in chip manufacturing.

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The AI infrastructure bottleneck is increasingly physical: while chipmakers can scale advanced AI silicon, utility interconnection timelines for new data centers are commonly 3–5 years. This likely slows hyperscaler data center buildouts and adds execution risk to near-term AI capacity expansion plans. The news is a headwind for AI rollouts despite continued progress in chip manufacturing.