Gotrade reports that AI data center expansion is placing unprecedented strain on the U.S. power grid, with new load requests from data center operators arriving faster than utilities can plan, permit, and build generation and transmission capacity. The article cites projections showing data center electricity demand could double within five years, concentrating stress on regional grids in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, and Arizona. Utility executives and grid planners are publicly warning that interconnection queues are already years long in the most active markets. Without coordinated federal investment or demand-side constraints, reliability margins in high-density data center markets are expected to tighten through the end of the decade.