Pakistan, Nov. 10 -- In the global race for artificial intelligence supremacy, American tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta face an unexpected roadblock - electricity. As these companies pour billions into AI data centres and chip production, the availability of electric power has become the latest bottleneck threatening to slow their progress.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently acknowledged that power, not chips, is now the biggest constraint. "You may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in," he said during a podcast with OpenAI chief Sam Altman. With data centres consuming immense energy and water resources, companies are now racing to secure power before they can even deploy new AI ...