Editorial composite showing data-center server racks beside a substation transformer and transmission towers, divided into clearly separate photographic panels.

A data center can take one to three years to build, but the grid infrastructure needed to power it may take five to 15 years. That difference helps explain why access to electricity, rather than land or computer chips, is delaying some projects.

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