Chapter 12, claim 2, the relay

The test. Falsified if the parallel investment of every layer at once has removed the relay the claim assumes. The relay is removed if a generator step-up transformer’s lead time is under a year, the threshold chapter 14 gives for the commodity future. If no such count for 2028 is published by that day, the limb is unscored.

a mixed or partial reading More than 160 weeks in the first quarter of 2026, up from 143 in 2024, on the count of Ben Boucher, a senior analyst with the consultancy Wood Mackenzie.

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31 December 2028

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One figure, a generator step-up transformer’s lead time

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Chapter 12 — Cross-Examination

The book’s own thesis put on trial: five claims, each scored against the record and given a dated test that could prove it wrong.

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@misc{dryburgh-chapter-12-claim-2-the-relay-2026,
  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Chapter 12, claim 2, the relay}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2028-13},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}