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For AI Data Centers, the Fastest Path to Power Now Runs Behind the Meter With interconnection queues stretching past seven years and turbine order books filling into the next decade, the proposed Nixxy-Tachyon9 platform joins a widening field of developers turning to on-site gas generation to keep AI capacity on schedule.
NEW YORK, June 11, 2026 The most consequential metric in U.S. data center development is no longer dollars per megawatt. It is time to power, and on that measure the grid is losing ground.
Projects entering interconnection queues in 2025 now face more than seven years on average to reach operation: three-plus years to secure an interconnection service agreement and four or more after that, according to Data Center Knowledge reporting from May.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's "Queued Up" 2025 edition counted more than 2,060 GW of generation and storage waiting in U.S. queues, with a median of roughly five years from request to operation.
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