⚡️EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT THE ENERGY SUPERCYCLE…
But their attention is on generation when they should be focused on delivery!
The US needs 150GW+ of new grid capacity by 2030. That’s roughly 12% of the entire existing fleet, added in 3.5 years, onto infrastructure built in the 1950s.
Transformer lead times have stretched from 30 months to 5 years.
Electrical equipment is under 10% of a data center’s build cost but the entire reason hyperscalers can’t get connected
$GEV walked into Q2 with a $176B backlog
$ETN raised guidance and ripped 13% while the rest of the group sold off
$PWR posted a record $9.56B quarter
One layer down, the real chokepoint is grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) & it’s close to a single-producer market!
⚠️Worth flagging the other side: only about 5GW of the 12GW in announced 2026 data center capacity is under construction.
If announcements don’t convert to real load, this decompresses fast & ugly!
Next real test comes Oct 29th, when
$PWR reports Q3
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