Hi community, I recently got into energy primarily because I work in tech and it has been a big topic at work even at events. I saw this guy on LinkedIn sharing his takes on energy and I wanted to get your opinion.
I tried validating the data/numbers he used too, seems valid, but I wanna know what the energy enthusiasts/community thinks about his opinion.
Seems like he’s an AI agents guy.
Source: mindlikeher
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I’m also curious about what he said re Middle East, if they decide to subsidize their AI/energy, they can establish a moat.
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-change-primary-energy-source?time=2014..latest&country=~CHN](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-change-primary-energy-source?time=2014..latest&country=~CHN)
They probably aren’t also wasting as much of it making cat videos or Ghiblifying everything.
I can’t verify the numbers. But I can see the way the AI data centers are driving up energy demand and pricing in my state. When I look at how the big beautiful bill kneecaps new energy generation, I think we are in trouble.
Energy efficiency is going to become much more important, since there won’t be any appreciable new generation capacity coming online in the near/mid future.
Too bad efficiency is “woke” and the current administration likes to beat on it to generate cheap social media heat.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if brownouts / rolling blackouts are on the horizon.
So just place your Ai research facilities next to an active volcano and instead of mining for crypto start hashing away at real world problems