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Can AI help connect more solar and wind farms to the power grid?

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It takes up to seven years to connect a new electricity generation project to the grid in the US .

There's an enormous backlog of 2,600 gigawatts worth of new energy generation and storage projects awaiting interconnection.

Pressure is building to clear that backlog with electricity demand on the rise — in no small part because of the artificial intelligence boom.