The Month in Infrastructure: The Grid, the Gap and the Growing Strain
April 07, 2026
Across energy, construction and water systems, there was a consistent underlying theme in March: The buildout of AI infrastructure has become so fast and so voracious that the traditional systems built to support people are struggling to keep up. Here’s what the top stories in SmartBrief’s energy and infrastructure newsletters showed, centered around data center independence, energy realism, costs of data center growth, and water affordability.
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