The Next Geography of AI: Infrastructure Corridors and the New Data Center Map
The next gigawatt will go not where land is cheapest or ambition loudest, but where the full corridor—grid, land, equipment, capital, and institutions—can execute.
China’s Tungsten Controls Expose a Semiconductor Chokepoint
WF6, a critical semiconductor gas, remains available despite reports of Japanese production exits. Yet China-linked tungsten feedstock controls, price spikes, concentrated supply, and 18–24-month qualification cycles expose a deeper bottleneck AI-driven chip demand cannot quickly solve.
Morgan Bazilian
The New Geography of AI Infrastructure
AI is making computation physical again: global AI capacity will follow not just chips and fiber, but power, water, cooling, permits, grid reliability, and the emerging Shadow Grid that turns energy infrastructure into the new map of AI advantage.
Brandon Owens
The Grid’s Newest Contingency Is Demand That Disappears
AIxEnergy has identified 14 discrete large-load disturbances and three documented event series across PJM, ERCOT, and Ireland. Together, they reveal the reliability problem that is created when individually rational protection systems don't coordinate.
Brandon Owens
The AI Boom Is Becoming a Credit Bet
AI financing has progressed from concentrated venture equity into a cross-asset financing system, while the market signals required to validate the buildout—utilization, cash generation, debt absorption and physical energization—remain unresolved.
Morgan Bazilian
The Moratorium Map: How the AI Boom Is Redrawing the Geography of Power and Permission
A new AIxEnergy dataset tracks 234 policy actions across 230 geographies, revealing how local governments, states and power systems are turning access to land and electricity into a negotiated form of permission.
Brandon Owens