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For a few hours on Thursday, September 3, something unusual happened across the AI world. People opened ChatGPT. Nothing. They switched to Claude. Problems. Then they tried Grok. Still down. Three of the biggest AI assistants in the world were experiencing service problems within the same window, leaving users wondering whether the much-talked-about “AI-pocalypse” had finally arrived.
The AI boom has been powered by one thing most people rarely think about: Electricity. Every ChatGPT conversation, AI image, video generator, coding assistant, and enterprise AI model runs inside enormous data centers packed with thousands of high-performance chips. Those facilities consume staggering amounts of power. Now, America's largest electricity grid operator has admitted something that would have sounded unimaginable just a few years ago
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