Datacenters That Don't Have Their Own Power Supplies Will Fail
The Register, Thursday, December 4th, 2025
It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices
Availability of energy will determine the prices charged by datacenter operators, who won't be viable unless they generate some of their own juice.
So says Bob Johnson, a VP analyst at Gartner, which on Tuesday published research titled 'Emerging Tech: Top Trends in Data Center Power Provisioning.'
Johnson opens by suggesting the AI boom means 'newer and larger data centers are being built at a rate that exceeds the support infrastructure that supports it - notably, the traditional power utilities' ability to supply sufficient electricity.'