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AI buildout bottleneck: power at existing data-center sites
Sep 3, 2026SOURCE: markets.businessinsider.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, choice concentrates around who can secure power-ready capacity—software talent becomes secondary to grid access.
Markets Insider reports that the scarcest input is not models, but sites with power already available. The wire signals the old system optimizing for energy-first constraints while the inversion shifts value toward infrastructure.
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.