America’s tech giants are masters of the digital realm. But as they guess stupendous sums on synthetic intelligence (ai), their ambitions are dealing with constraints within the bodily world. Shortages of chips and data-centre tools comparable to transformers and switching gear imply hovering costs and prolonged waits. Simply as urgent is entry to vitality as utilities wrestle to match the calls for of Silicon Valley. On July twenty fourth President Donald Trump revealed an “ai motion plan” which describes America’s stagnating vitality capability as a risk to the nation’s “ai dominance”. How is large tech dealing with a worsening energy crunch?