The AI data center boom has a ghost problem

Halloween ghosts on a Silicon Valley lawn. Alistair Barr/Business Insider A version of this story originally appeared in the AI Insider newsletter. Sign up for Business Insider's weekly AI Insider newsletter here. The AI data center boom looks like it's running into serious trouble. Projects are being delayed, canceled, or abandoned. Electricity shortages are holding everything up. But there's a twist: A lot of these data centers were probably never going to get built in the first place. Bernstein Research analyzed thousands of planned US data centers and concluded that only about 35% of the a