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> The 120 Week Wall: Why Transformers (Not GPUs) are the Real AI Bottleneck?

https://geoconstraints.substack.com/p/the-120-week-wall-why-transformers


I pointed this out what, 2 or more years ago? Our grid is not able to sustain growth/expansion and is honestly at risk of failure/collapse from LPTs. The EIA has a report from several years ago that warns we have too many aged LPTs, many beyond their replacement date (+40 years old), and nobody is doing anything about it

And they cost a ton of money

And they take forever to build

And the biggest ones can't even be built in the USA anyway

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@Netraven yeah, it's crazy how we don't have a national reserve of these things, but it's kinda hard to do because they're nearly all custom sized

- former employee of a MISO power company here -- people just don't get how impressive it is that our grid works at all