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What Can Solve the Huge Energy Demands of a Future with Abundant AI?

By Brian Wang

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Aug 02, 2024
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What kind of future energy does humanity really need to develop? We need a lot more energy than you think. We need to build faster and it needs to be cheap.

There is vastly more electrical energy that is needed. The world has added about 700 TWh per year in electricity in 2022 and in 2023. The world will soon be adding 1500 to 3000 TWh per year in energy.

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