
TOPSHOT - Neri Carrillo, mother of two premature girls, tends to her daughters at her home in Corregidora municipality, Queretaro state, Mexico, on July 30, 2026, amid recurring power outages that she says have complicated their oxygen treatment. Data centers are growing rapidly in Mexico, but the next stepgenerating or storing artificial intelligenceruns up against an electrical grid that is already operating at its limit. (Photo by Cesar Gomez / AFP via Getty Images)
