# Gartner: 40% of AI data centers out of power by 2026

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-08-02
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Solving the AI energy crisis \| Greg Osuri on what it takes to power AI (Changelog)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:56 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=176s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-08-02-gartner-40-of-ai-data-centers-out-of-power-by-2026-n4js/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Gartner: 40% of AI data centers out of power by 2026," Solving the AI energy crisis \| Greg Osuri on what it takes to power AI (Changelog), 2 Aug 2025, 00:02:56. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=176s

## Quote — verbatim

> The US grid grew about 1.2% in the last 20 years... Gartner predicts by 2026 — that's next year — about 40% of AI data centers will be out of power, because we will be forced to a position where we have to make a decision as to who gets the energy: is it the homes or is it going to be data centers?

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Framing the supply/demand mismatch between AI load growth and grid growth.