Thursday, June 26, 2025

Preparing for tomorrow’s agentic workforce - Lareina Yee and Rodrigo Liang, McKinsey

As we scale up, we’re now seeing other constraints start to appear, like a lack of sufficient power for these data centers. So people are talking about nuclear power plants and other sources of energy. But then you have to figure out how to get the cooling done as well. And as you think about energy, you’ll also need to figure out how to update your entire grid to power those gigawatt data centers. And eventually, you’ve got to get all of that back-connected to where the users are, which is mainly in these large metropolitan areas—which is not where you’re going to put your gigawatt data center. So, there are a lot of infrastructure challenges we have to figure out.