Israel freezes new data center grid connections for 140 days

Israel's Electrical Authority has paused grid processing of applications for new data centers with capacity of 8 megawatts or more, for a period of 140 days.

Why it matters: It's another data point in a growing pattern of power grids buckling under AI-driven data center demand, following reports of a data center load drop destabilizing the PJM grid and Loudoun County's proposed moratorium. Power availability, not chip supply, increasingly looks like the binding constraint on AI infrastructure growth worldwide.