When the heat rises, your AI goes dark
Most enterprise AI conversations in 2026 focus on model quality, cost-per-token, and agentic workflows. Almost none of them ask a simpler question: what happens when the electricity runs out? Or when a single cooling plant fails on a hot August afternoon in a Frankfurt data centre that your entire customer operation depends on? That question is no longer hypothetical. The physical infrastructure beneath enterprise AI is under stress from two directions at once — from a structural mismatch between AI power demand and available grid capacity, and from a climate baseline that is making the thermal assumptions behind data-centre design [...]
