Residents walk along a street in the town of Colon, a town that locals say is affected by power outages caused by the Ascenty and Microsoft data centers, in the state of Queretaro, Mexico, on July 30, 2026. 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)