Energy
Power Is the New Bottleneck for AI
Interconnection queues, transformer lead times and political scrutiny are now shaping the AI build-out more than accelerator supply.
6 min read
Parallax Index · #4 · Mainstreaming
AI Infrastructure
Capital is still flowing at historic scale, but the narrative has shifted from chips to power, land and interconnection.
Score
82
12-week change
+2
AI Infrastructure: Parallax Index scoreIllustrative
Trailing 12 weeks
Source: Parallax Index. Launch edition: editorial estimates.
AI Infrastructure: Parallax Index score. Score: W1 80, W2 82, W3 83, W4 84, W5 84, W6 83, W7 82, W8 81, W9 81, W10 80, W11 81, W12 82.
Why now?
- Inference outgrowing training demand
- Power now the gating factor
- Sovereign and enterprise buyers entering
Coverage
AI
Open-Weight Models Are Becoming Strategic Infrastructure
Open-weight releases shape who can build, where models run and which countries control their AI stack. Governments and enterprises are treating them like infrastructure.
5 min read
Energy/ Deep Dive
Powering Intelligence: Energy as the Binding Constraint on AI
A Deep Dive on the energy demand of AI, the infrastructure racing to meet it, the political economy of who pays, and the technologies that could relieve the constraint.
13 min read
Tech/ Data Story
The Inference Economy
A data story on why inference is overtaking training as the dominant compute and cost story, and what it means for chips, data centres and pricing.
5 min read
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