Risk of darkness looms across Europe and America as power-hungry AI data centers and electric cars drain the grid, decimate factory capacity, and engineer a four-year wait for transformers

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Jul 13, 2026, 8:35 pm188 ptsTrendingTop
AI expansion is overwhelming transformer factories across global electricity markets today Power transformer delivery times have stretched from months into several years Aging electricity grids are driving an urgent wave of transformer replacements Electricity grids across Europe and North America are facing a…

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