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AI data centers hit a turbine bottleneck: 116 GW queued, five-year output pre-sold
Aug 22, 2026SOURCE: ainvest.com
SO WHAT
This tightens the thousand-day window by making compute growth depend on scarce physical throughput and timelines, not model progress. Expect slower AI deployment where power infrastructure is hardest to expand.
A 116 GW gas-turbine queue and pre-sold five years of production is constraining new capacity. The phase transition’s friction is shifting from software to electricity hardware.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.