Until our Country solves our energy reliability issues (generation, transmission, and distribution), it is nearly impossible to envision any ability to reap revenue benefits from AI.

In the United States many areas are taking advantage of sizable tax revenues from data centers to support local economies (see Loudoun County, Virginia where 40% of the county budget is supplied by tax revenue from data centers). However, this comes with some downside impact such as energy supply and regional power demand. Certain entities have pursued a course of generating their own power onsite without connecting to the regional grid, which enables some level of self sufficiency in regards to energy supply.

The plain truth is our pathetic electrical energy provider is third world at best, and is unable to sustain even basic power needs consistently. In the modern world there is no excuse for our energy problem.

Unfortunately, this article underestimates the scope of the problem. In my experience, it is larger than reported. Lethargy, laziness, and looking for a hand out attitudes seem to be the norm for many. Employers routinely encounter individuals who believe they are worth more than what their level of qualification demonstrates. Attitudes towards being a reliable, dependable, willing to learn employee are difficult to find in much of the Bahamian employment base.

In lieu of a certain set of skills, a person with the desire to work hard, learn, and report to work on time each day, becomes very valuable and worth more investment on the part of the employer.

Robert Kagan lost all of his relevance when he endorsed Hillary Clinton for US President in 2016. Subsequently, he has continued his downward spiral, and is now relegated to supplying quotes for Stateside. LOL !

One other "lesson" to take away from your visit to China, your CCP handlers closely controlled and monitored everything.

Laughable exchange.

The fact that this interaction took place is another example of all around failure. Our electrical grid can be improved, but, it will take completely new Leadership and Management, significant financial investment, and time. We didn't get here overnight, and there is a large amount of work to be done.

Unfortunately, even if properly managed and deliberately undertaken, it will be a stressful process for the population.

Really, our sovereign entity is incapable of providing reliable electrical service.

"One overtime record from Christmas week shows an employee recorded as working 18 hours on Christmas Day, followed by 24 hours on December 26, another 24 hours on December 27 and 24 hours again on December 28 — a total of 90 hours over four consecutive days."

A prime example of the larger problem. Leadership, Management, and Supervisors are inept and missing.

When a basic service such as safe and reliable electricity becomes completely unreliable, what are individuals and businesses supposed to do ? Bahamian citizens have experienced this problem for many years, and we deserve better. Excuse after excuse, outage after outage, we have heard the same talking points over and over. Of course generators will be used to supplement and make up the energy supply whenever possible. With proper leadership and management all of the reliability problems in our nations capital could/should have been addressed decades ago.

Again, what are we supposed to do? Wake up citizens !!

Well said Island Warrior. Spot on. Wake up Bahamian citizens !!

Pathetic admission of failure. How is this discovery possible this late in the process? Feasibility and design must have been ignored or overlooked. Wake up citizens !!