Megawatts and Microchips: The American Startups Rebuilding Data Centers for the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A new generation of US startups is dismantling decades of data center orthodoxy, engineering radical solutions to cooling, power consumption, and custom silicon that legacy hyperscalers were never designed to handle. As AI workloads grow exponentially in scale and complexity, the physical infrastructure underpinning the intelligence economy is being rebuilt from the concrete slab up. The next defining American tech company may not be measured in users or clicks — it may be measured in megawatts.