[ExI] Where's the electricity power coming from?

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 06/10/2025 17:00, BillK wrote:
> This article states that OpenAI will soon require three more Hoover
> Dams' worth of electricity.
> <https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-signs-ai-chip-supply-deal-with-openai-gives-it-option-take-10-stake-2025-10-06/>
> And so will all the other AI companies worldwide.
> So I asked Perplexity AI to research that problem.
> And it panicked!  ��
> It pointed out that the electricity grids around the USA and the world
> cannot cope with the additional power demands.
> And sufficient power will not be generated for many years to come.
> That means years of investment in both the grid and power generation.
> All the usual suspects were mentioned for power generation and
> upgrading the grids. But these all take years to build. What it boils
> down to is that nobody has planned for this scale of upgrade, and
> therefore it probably won't happen in time.

Could this be a good thing in disguise?

Spurring research into more power-efficient systems, I mean.

Considering that the human brain is quite a lot more powerful than any 
computer we have so far, and runs on something like 100 watts, there's 
plenty of room for improvement in our computers.

-- 
Ben