How power grids around the world will handle the wave of enormous AI data centers being planned by operators in all major markets is a question occupying many of the industry’s brightest minds.

As demand for multi-gigawatt campuses escalates, more pressure is being applied to power systems that have already been stretched to their limits. GPUs, the chips that have powered the AI revolution, consume far more power than the CPUs found in traditional data centers.

In this supplement, we dive into the most pressing energy questions facing the digital infrastructure industry today, and explore what comes next for power-hungry AI workloads.