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US AI data centers expand, but depend on Chinese power hardware
Sep 3, 2026SOURCE: cnbc.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, every MW added is also a dependency decision; without domestic power leverage, the inversion becomes a logistics vulnerability, not just an efficiency gain.
Chinese firms supply major portions of transformers, batteries, and optical transceivers used in US data centers. The old system is being stress-tested: compute grows, but power supply chains remain centralized and exposed.
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.