# Announced data-center projects are stalling — "a crisis beyond historical proportions"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-07-29
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** AI Data Centers Are Eating the Grid. Is There Another Way? (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:03:16 — https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440361/episodes/19568316-ai-data-centers-are-eating-the-grid-is-there-another-way
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2026-07-29-announced-data-center-projects-are-stalling-a-cris-k4hj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Announced data-center projects are stalling — "a crisis beyond historical proportions"," AI Data Centers Are Eating the Grid. Is There Another Way? (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 29 Jul 2026, 00:03:16. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440361/episodes/19568316-ai-data-centers-are-eating-the-grid-is-there-another-way

## Quote — verbatim

> The reality today is most data center projects that were announced by OpenAI, as part of the Stargate program, by CoreWeave, several other players that announced building large data center projects are all stalled because of local community pushback, primarily because of energy. So we're in a crisis beyond historical proportions.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His update on the state of the buildout in mid-2026; frames community/energy pushback, not chips, as the binding constraint.