# Data centers now face 10-year interconnection queues

- **Speaker:** Jason Badeaux
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-04
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate 2025 - Jason Badeaux from Daylight on Decentralized Energy (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:11:27 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln1nLMPnxlk&t=687s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-07-04-data-centers-now-face-10-year-interconnection-queu-i2zv/
- **Cite as:** Jason Badeaux, "Data centers now face 10-year interconnection queues," Akash Accelerate 2025 - Jason Badeaux from Daylight on Decentralized Energy (Akash Network), 4 Jul 2025, 00:11:27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln1nLMPnxlk&t=687s

## Quote — verbatim

> Some data came out last week actually that most data centers now have a 10-year interconnection queue... which means I can start constructing it \[in\] 2035. That's not going to work for where we're headed. And so this intersection of distributed energy, distributed compute is I think the next generation of how we build infrastructure.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing argument that centralized grid and data center buildout cannot keep pace with AI demand. **Speaker:** Jason Badeaux (Daylight), not Greg.