AI-Driven Energy Crisis Exposes Washington’s Failure to Secure America’s Power Future

As artificial intelligence technologies surge ahead, they bring with them an unprecedented strain on America’s already fragile energy infrastructure. Industry leaders gathered at Miami’s World Strategic Forum are ringing alarm bells: the skyrocketing electricity demand driven by AI is pushing supply chains and power generation capacity to their limits — a crisis Washington seems ill-prepared to confront.Why Is America Paying a Steep Price for AI’s Boom?The numbers tell a troubling story. Andrew Waranch, president of Spearmint Energy, warns that the rapid growth in electrical consumption tied to data centers and AI workloads was vastly underestimated. Shawn Bennet from the division...