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AI agents move from queries to execution, spiking data-center power demand
Sep 13, 2026SOURCE: wired.com
SO WHAT
Within the thousand-day window, energy becomes the gating variable for choice; the phase transition will privilege operators over users.
Silicon Valley is pivoting toward agentic AI that runs workloads, not just answers. The signal is a facility-scale buildout as the old query model fades.
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.