The grid connection queue is not a neutral waiting list — it is a revealed preference. The UK government's AI Opportunities Action Plan triggered a wave of datacenter applications that grew 460 percent in six months, overwhelming a system designed for orderly infrastructure planning. The proposed reform to prioritize "strategically important" connections formalizes what the queue already shows: commercial AI infrastructure has moved to the front, and the policy framework is being written around that outcome rather than before it. Housing developers fuming at the prospect of decade-long delays are…