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Goldman: AI token growth will force data-center power demand higher
Sep 1, 2026SOURCE: goldmansachs.com
SO WHAT
Over the next thousand days, grid scale-up becomes the gating variable; choice shifts from model-building to power-permissioning.
Goldman Sachs projects increasing power needs for data centers as AI token usage expands. The signal is an old constraint being re-rated by the inversion—computation eats energy, not hours.
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.