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America’s AI Build-Out Hinges on Chinese Electrical Parts (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 6 hours ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The struggle to manufacture transformers, switchgear and batteries domestically has forced the US to rely on imports, delaying data center construction.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

No shit.

[–] Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting I was reading they can't replace all their damaged radars anymore either because China is the only real supplier of Gallium and more than a bit annoyed with them.

All this tarrif and insulting everyone business is probably going to bite them back hard and for a long long time.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

China is the only real supplier of Gallium

Like many other critical materials and rare Earth's (of which Gallium isn't one), the USA has sizable deposits of the materials. What we lack is the ability to refine it usually because the process to do so is so ecologically toxic.