{"id":6840,"date":"2026-10-15T23:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:28:32","slug":"flex-ceo-says-infrastructure-and-the-grid-needs-to-scale-with-ai-or-forget-all-the-frontier-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=6840","title":{"rendered":"Flex CEO says infrastructure and the grid needs to scale with AI or \u2018Forget all the frontier models\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/55589489741_9a53e4dac4_o-e1792095433760.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AI seems to be springing up in nearly every facet of people\u2019s professional and personal lives, from chatbots installed into workflows to data centers taking root in suburban towns. But Revathi Advaithi, the CEO of supply chain giant Flex, warns that it could all come to a screeching halt if America\u2019s infrastructure continues to fall behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMost of us think about power only when the power goes off in our house or things like that. But we have a grid that\u2019s just not ready for what\u2019s in front of us,\u201d Advaithi told executive editorial director Diane Brady onstage at <em>Fortune\u2019<\/em>s annual Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara, California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I think about AI readiness, everyone\u2019s focused on technology: whether it\u2019s semiconductors or frontier models and things like that. And I\u2019m focused on, \u2018Hey, if you don\u2019t get the energy infrastructure and the grid ready, forget all the frontier models and forget all the semiconductors\u2019\u2026Because you don\u2019t have a country that can take advantage of all of that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the leader says it\u2019s no easy fix to turn things around. Advaithi explained that it takes decades to build a power grid capable of meeting the country\u2019s growing energy needs; meanwhile, developing a chip only takes five years. As AI seeps into every nook and cranny of life, people may question whether we\u2019re ready for the tech from a consumer and industry standpoint. But for the Flex CEO, the real concern is whether the country\u2019s power infrastructure is ready for the transformation. By 2030, around 11.8% of all U.S. electricity could go to data centers, according to a 2025 Berkeley study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re far behind, and it\u2019s going to take us a long time to really innovate,\u201d she said. \u201cPower doesn\u2019t seem to have changed since the [Thomas] Edison days, and so it really is going to take a long time to innovate and change what\u2019s happening in the power infrastructure\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advaithi estimates that America will still have a power gap in the next decade as the frontier models continue to grow. Deploying all that compute requires a significant amount of power readiness, she said\u2014and the U.S. is already in a deficit. She predicts that there will continue to be a slump over the next decade unless the country speeds up its standards and approvals for innovation. However, there are roadblocks to keeping pace with AI\u2019s innovation; there are a \u201ctremendous amount\u201d of approval processes in creating new power technology, she said. Plus, data centers aren\u2019t acting with haste or employing new innovations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is no joke when I talk about the fact that energy and power innovation hasn\u2019t happened in a long time, and it hasn\u2019t happened because there\u2019s safety issues, there\u2019s regulatory issues,\u201d the Flex leader explained. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to mess around with things like power, because it impacts people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the country\u2019s lumbering process continues to stall power progress indefinitely, Advaithi warned, AI\u2019s growing appetite for electricity threatens to outpace the infrastructure needed to sustain it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnless we move forward pretty fast with new generation\u2014upgrading our transmission lines which are all old and outdated, really getting to next generation distribution\u2014we are going to be operating in a deficit,\u201d she said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want that deficit to impact what will happen in AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Flex #CEO #infrastructure #grid #scale #Forget #frontier #models<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI seems to be springing up in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[269,283,1405,3419,1194,633,9948,2247,996,3001,946,342,1980,1110,9949,2997,3277,2430,2972,167],"class_list":["post-6840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-business","tag-ceo","tag-chief-executive-officer-ceo","tag-electrical-grid","tag-electricity","tag-executives","tag-flex","tag-forget","tag-frontier","tag-grid","tag-infrastructure","tag-models","tag-most-powerful-women","tag-power","tag-power-grid","tag-power-plants","tag-scale","tag-supply-chains","tag-united-states","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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