Nepal's annual peak power demand reached 950 megawatts last year, outpacing capacity of 705 megawatts, according to the Nepal Electricity Authority.
But even if every element on that list falls into place on schedule (which would also be something new), demand will still outpace capacity in some places.
(An exabyte is 1018 bytes, or one billion gigabytes).Nemertes, a market-research firm, issued a warning in November 2007 that "user demand for the internet could outpace capacity by 2010", and speculated that this would both inconvenience users and hamper innovation.
As we can see, Mobile is outpacing capacity, especially with the rise of mobile apps.
Utilization rates and margins in the refining industry are likely to remain "surprisingly high," with demand outpacing capacity, according to a report from Morgan Stanley.
Leo Larkin, an analyst at Standard & Poor's Equity Research thinks long-term copper demand will continue to outpace capacity thanks to the growing economies of China and India, which need copper for plumbing, wiring and other infrastructure uses.
In many African countries, urbanization is rapidly outpacing capacity.
"The hacking abilities of malicious actors have far outpaced the capacity of the human defender.
In Africa, the number of people without access to adequate water and sanitation facilities has risen swiftly in recent decades as the continent's rapid urbanization outpaced its capacity to provide the essential water and sanitation services.
Water stress has been a concern in the region for years, but worsening climatic conditions mean the depth of droughts have outpaced government capacity to build infrastructure and fix perennial problems, such as leaky urban water systems and over use of scarce water resources by industry and consumers.
