The US holds 45% of global data-center power consumption versus 25% for China, which represents a real but far narrower lead than facility counts suggest.
Goldman Sachs estimates that only about 50 to 60 percent of planned US data-center capacity will open on schedule due to grid delays and equipment shortages.
America's real AI advantage is controlling advanced accelerators and hyperscaler capital, not owning thousands of aging data-center buildings.
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Conventional rankings show that the United States has approximately ten times as many data centers as its nearest competitor, but facility counts include thousands of sites constructed before the AI era.