New Delhi, April 14 -- The AI trade has officially entered its "industrial phase." While 2024 and 2025 were defined by the race for the best Large Language Model (LLM), 2026 has revealed a much harder truth: AI is a physical commodity. Tech giants, the "Hyperscalers" like Microsoft, Meta, and Google are projected to spend over $600 billion with the vast majority (75%) earmarked for AI infrastructure. However, the bottleneck has fundamentally shifted.

The primary constraint is no longer just "Who has the fastest chips?" but rather "Who has the power, the cooling, and the space to run them?" U.S. data centre electricity demand is now forecast to grow at a staggering rate, driving nearly half of all new U.S. power demand through 2030. With ...