# 14-year turbine lead times are pausing mega-projects

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-07-17
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** This Crypto Turns GPUs Into Income For Everyone!!!! (AllinCrypto)
- **Watch at:** 00:27:49 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5Mk3yKYy0&t=1669s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2026-07-17-14-year-turbine-lead-times-are-pausing-mega-projec-xszb/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "14-year turbine lead times are pausing mega-projects," This Crypto Turns GPUs Into Income For Everyone!!!! (AllinCrypto), 17 Jul 2026, 00:27:49. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5Mk3yKYy0&t=1669s

## Quote — verbatim

> The lead time for a turbine today is 14 years. The lead time for a transformer is 4 years... They paused the build-out because they can't get transformers.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On why LNG-powered data-center build-outs (including the OpenAI/SoftBank "Stargate"-style half-trillion-dollar project) stall; frames the energy crunch he testified to Congress about.