A.I.
Power
Watts, fuel, interconnect, and the permits that can stop them.
A data center is sized by the power it can draw. A megawatt (MW) is a million watts and a gigawatt (GW) a billion, about the output of one large power plant. AI campuses now plan for 1 to 5 GW, so labs sign their own deals for gas plants, batteries, and nuclear power.
An uprate is an upgrade that lets an existing power plant make more electricity. A grid connection, or interconnect, is the permission and wiring to draw power from the public grid. The cards below each come from a sourced page.