Comment by dathinab

It wasn't that long ago that China had quite a bit of problems with their power gird, they tend planed to renovate it and planed in future growth which happened to perfectly overlap with the start of the AI wave (but that still probably require them to revisit their longer term plans).

On the other hand in the US any notion of improving the grid was attacked for years by anti-renwable lobby. Because most reasons why its needed where things like electric cars, stoves, heating etc.

Naturally that isn't just a problem in the US, rich people which through lobbyist have way to much influence in politics screwing over the future of a country because they are largely invested into things which do not seem "future" technology but they try to force it to stay relevant is a pretty wide spread problem.