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The cloud industry is growing impatient with the lack of progress in Congress on a top issue for the future of AI: boosting the energy supply.

AI industry wants Congress to move on power — now

The cloud industry is growing impatient with the lack of progress in Congress on a top issue for the future of AI: boosting the energy supply.

Even as Washington works through key issues like export controls on advanced chips, Microsoft and AWS say getting enough energy is what’s stopping them from fueling electricity-hungry data centers that are key to the AI boom.

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