[ExI] Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 12:11 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Instead of that big plant, imagine creating power for use by a bunch of microprocessors, with steady use, not much variability in power demand, since they are using the power in reading source material and creating AIs, which they do around the clock.

Incorrect.  They have periods of idle time, and periods when the most
power hungry bits are waiting on other bits.  It takes some power
buffering within data centers, and scheduling of jobs (which means
deliberately not running full blast), to make it so the grid sees them
as mostly baseload demand - and the kind of data center you'd probably
wind up with wouldn't have that buffering.  (Just take a look at the
architectures in your posts.  You'd spend all the infrastructure you
could on maximum chips, with minimum anything else.)