America’s AI boom requires a lot of power. NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer Hiller about the workers who are building the electric grid one transformer at a time.
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SCOTT DETROW, HOST:
America is in the middle of an AI boom, and that AI boom requires a lot of electric power, and all of that power, at one point or another, passes through a transformer. These key pieces of infrastructure are hard to make. The work requires patience, skill and people. And just like so many other key cogs of