May 6, 2026
You’re Budgeting for Infinite AI Compute. The Grid Has Other Plans.
AI data centres are projected to consume more energy than Germany and France combined by 2030, yet most enterprise AI strategies are still built on the assumption that compute is cheap and limitless. This article examines the energy and infrastructure constraints that are closing the brute-force compute era, and sets out the practical architecture shifts – task decomposition, context discipline, evaluation-driven model selection – that organisations need to make now.