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EROI, grid balancing, and infrastructure inertia are the three mechanisms that decide which fuels a society can actually run on and how fast it can change its mind.
Every briefing in this cohort eventually runs into the same wall: not a chip shortage, but a power shortage. The industry has enough silicon ambition. It doesn't have enough electricity infrastructure to plug it into.
More than 2,100 gigawatts of proposed projects are waiting for grid interconnection approval in the United States — more capacity than the entire national grid currently has. AI datacenters are only part of that queue, and they still can't skip it.
This cohort has covered wafers, EUV tools, and HBM stacks as the inputs that limit chip supply. Electricity access belongs on that same list now — not as a downstream side effect, but as a hard constraint on deployment itself.