Transformers on EnergyNotehttps://energynote.kr/en/tags/transformers/Recent content in Transformers on EnergyNoteHugoen-USThu, 03 Sep 2026 12:30:00 +0900The real bottleneck for AI data centers is the wire, not the power plant — Korea's 1.9% approval rate and the US interconnection queuehttps://energynote.kr/en/posts/datacenter-grid-bottleneck/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:30:00 +0900https://energynote.kr/en/posts/datacenter-grid-bottleneck/<p>1.9 percent. Through March 2026, developers had filed 522 grid impact assessments for data centers in the Seoul metropolitan area, asking for a combined 33,592 MW. Ten of them had received a final &ldquo;supply available&rdquo; decision, according to a July 2026 tally by CBRE Korea, the real estate services firm.</p>