AI’s Power Boom Hit by a Gas-Turbine Bottleneck
AI’s data-center power surge is colliding with a global gas-turbine bottleneck: major OEM backlogs and multi-year lead times, plus paid slot reservations, mean turbines won’t arrive fast enough to meet Goldman Sachs’ estimate of 36.3 GW/year demand, forcing reliance on alternatives and shifting the bottleneck to regulators and policy rather than factory output.