Power is caught in AI’s doom loop
Open Circuit takes stock of the backlash against data centers, and cites Arushi’s PCLR work in Texas among the solutions ready to deploy.
Latitude Media
In brief
Jigar Shah, Katherine Hamilton and Stephen Lacey take stock of a summer of fast-moving power sector reforms, record local resistance to data centers and AI’s effect on midterm politics, and ask what responsible data center development looks like. The hosts cite the PCLR work Arushi has done in Texas, alongside efforts in PJM and the Grid 2.0 task force, as proof that technology to get more out of the grid we already have is ready to deploy at scale.
Key points
- 01How backlash and moratoriums are changing the way new power gets built.
- 02Arushi’s PCLR work in Texas, cited as a solution ready to deploy.



