<div id="readability-page-1"><div><div><p><em>ByAkshat Rathi, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist</em></p><p>The chip equipment maker ASML Holding NV is so crucial that a swing in its fortunes can sway the Dutch economy and the global development of artificial intelligence. <strong>Now one of the company’s biggest growth plans — building a new campus that will employ as many as 20,000 people in the country’s Eindhoven region — depends on whether or not it can get an electricity connection.</strong></p></div></div></div>

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<p>ByAkshat Rathi, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategistThe chip equipment maker ASML Holding NV is so crucial that a swing in its fortunes can sway the Dutch economy and the global development of artificial intelligence. Now one of the company’s biggest growth plans — building a new campus that will employ as many as 20,000 people in the country’s Eindhoven region — depends on whether or not it can get an electricity connection.</p>

Access To Electricity Is Holding Back Growth Across The Global Economy