Permission is the new bottleneck for AI data centres

Permission is the new bottleneck for AI data centres

As gigawatt-scale sites move from abstract infrastructure to highly visible ‘AI factories’, Tate Cantrell, Verne CTO, argues that grid capacity, water myths, and local sentiment will decide what actually gets built. The industry in 2026 will need to get ready for hyper-dense, gigawatt-scale data centres, but preparation will be more complicated than purely infrastructure design. AI’s exploding computational demand is pushing designers to deliver…

Why David Sacks Wanted to Preempt Local Zoning: The Real AI Bottleneck Isn’t Copyright—It’s Concrete

Over the last several weeks, reporting across the country has shown something unusually consistent in American politics: there is no genuine grassroots support for data center development—only organized, increasingly effective opposition. From Texas to Arizona to Virginia to Michigan and Wisconsin, communities aren’t asking how to host data centers; they’re asking how to stop them. That reality explains a move that otherwise looked abstract or i…