I just read an article this morning saying we need to add 29gw to our grid by 2027 to power AI:
"Many people project demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation... an additional 29 gigawatts by 2027 and 67 more gigawatts by 2030," he asserted. "If [China] comes to superintelligence first, it changes the dynamic of power globally, in ways that we have no way of understanding or predicting," ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt said
For size comparison, a large nuclear reactor generates about 1gw. That's 96 reactors or equivalent LP gas, coal, wind, solar - whatever, within 5 years, to be anywhere near keeping up with the Chinese in shear computing power and AI development. The first one to achieve ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) wins and gets to rule the world. Even coming in 2nd place is no good because that ASI will never be able to catch up to the 1st. Never!
My advice? Start learning to speak Chinese. There is no way in hell that this divided country could ever come together to add 96gw to our antique grid in 5 years time, hell, it takes 5 years of environmental studies, just to get permits to build one power plant.
Personally, Ima get Rosetta Stone and start with Mandarin...
Ima make it my mission to start a "Power Grid Renaissance" like FDR'S "New Deal" that he used to build us up out of the Great Depression, when they built all the beautiful State and National Parks, Wildlife Preserves, hiking trails etc... We better all pull together and get with it or we're all gonna be fooked...