The tech industry’s latest revelation has been doing the rounds this week, and frankly, it’s both hilarious and deeply frustrating. Apparently, some AI experts visited China and returned “stunned” by the state of America’s power grid compared to China’s surplus capacity. The hot take? The U.S. might have already lost the AI race because their electricity infrastructure is, to put it mildly, absolute rubbish.

Now, I’m sitting here wondering: did these folks really need to travel halfway around the world to figure out that decades of underinvestment in basic infrastructure might come back to bite them? Anyone who’s lived through a Texas winter storm or a California heat wave could have saved them the airfare.