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The US is in danger of losing the global AI race for the most banal and careless of reasons: it is critically short of electricity.

The country is sitting on a neglected pre-modern grid that cannot meet surging power demand for data centres, cryptocurrencies, the reshoring of semiconductor plants and the proclaimed revival of the American industrial base.

Trump’s tariff war and his energy culture war are together an unmitigated disaster. Credit: AP

Nor can it meet the needs for air conditioning through hotter and more humid summers. While we all talk about AI, the chief cause of rising electricity use last year was for cooling. Bitcoin mining took another 2 per cent of

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