As AI Companies Race for Power, Amazon and Google Have the Lead - WSJ

The biggest AI companies are fighting over power grids. You're fighting over which tool to even try first. Those aren't the same problem. And nobody's been honest with you about that. If you bought

The biggest AI companies are fighting over power grids. You're fighting over which tool to even try first.

Those aren't the same problem. And nobody's been honest with you about that.

If you bought an AI subscription that your team quietly stopped using, you're not alone. Most business owners I talk to have at least one "ghost tool" draining $200 a month. That doesn't mean you picked wrong. It means you were sold a solution before anyone understood your actual problem.

Here's what the Amazon and Google infrastructure race actually tells you: AI capability is not the bottleneck. These companies have more computing power than any small business will ever need. The real bottleneck is knowing which specific business problem you're solving before you spend a dollar.

That's the gap nobody in the AI space wants to admit. Because "identify your problem first" doesn't sell software.

This week, pick one repetitive task your team does manually — something that takes 2 to 4 hours per week. Write it down. That single answer is worth more than any AI demo you'll sit through.

One problem. One tool. One win. That's how this actually works.

What's the AI tool you bought that nobody ended up using — and what were you hoping it would solve?

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Others have more direct plans for off-grid, natural-gas-dependent data centers, most of which use smaller, industrial-scale power equipment. Microsoft ...