By Laila Kearney
Publication Date: 2026-01-14 23:40:00
Jan 14 (Reuters) – Connecting to the U.S. electrical transmission system has become the biggest problem for powering up Google data centers on the grid, as the wait times to connect surge to more than a decade in some parts of the country, an energy executive with Google said on Wednesday.
The world’s largest technology companies are running up against the realities of the country’s slow-moving power system as they race to access vast amounts of electricity for the expansion of energy-intensive data centers, which are increasingly being used to train and roll out artificial intelligence.
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“We had one utility who told us 12 years to study the interconnection timeline, which is sort of wild, but that’s what we’re seeing,” Hanna said.
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