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Within a generation, the way we discover medicine, manage power grids, and secure our national infrastructure will be completely transformed.Aidan GomezSeptember 2026· Essay
In 36 months, but probably closer to 30 months, the most economically compelling place to put AI will be space.Elon MuskFeb 5, 2026· Interview
My guess is that people start getting to the point where they can’t turn the chips on for large clusters towards the end of this year. The chips are going to be piling up and won’t be able to be turned on.Elon MuskFeb 5, 2026· Interview
The limiting factor once you can get to space is chips, but the limiting factor before you can get to space is power.Elon MuskFeb 5, 2026· Interview
The output of chips is growing pretty much exponentially, but the output of electricity is flat.Elon MuskFeb 5, 2026· Interview
For AI to have societal permission it must have real world eval impact. The choices we make about where we apply our scarce energy, compute, and talent resources will matter.Satya NadellaDec 29, 2025· Post
In fact, we’ve gotten so good at scaling AI with GPUs that power not compute is the primary limitation.Martin CasadoNov 19, 2025· Essay
The product that is the bottleneck is just a bunch of powered-up shells, right?Satya NadellaNov 18, 2025· Interview
And we’re probably close, and again in the next five years to having AI systems that can materially help with those problems.Demis HassabisJul 23, 2025· Interview
As datacenter production gets automated, the cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity.Sam AltmanJun 10, 2025· Post
These AI data centers, if you will, are improperly described. They are, in fact, AI factories. You apply energy to it, and it produces something incredibly valuable, and these things are called tokens.Jensen HuangMay 18, 2025· Keynote
Beyond that, the next frontier will involve designing data centers as flexible load centers, capable of adjusting their consumption based on real-time grid needs.Werner VogelsDec 5, 2024· Post
The trillion-dollar, 100GW cluster alone would require ~20% of current US electricity generation in 6 years; together with large inference capacity, demand will be multiples higher.Leopold AschenbrennerJun 4, 2024· Essay
I actually think before we hit that, you're going to run into energy constraints. I don't think anyone's built a gigawatt single training cluster yet.Mark ZuckerbergApr 18, 2024· Interview
Just to put this in perspective, I think a gigawatt would be the size of a meaningful nuclear power plant only going towards training a model.Mark ZuckerbergApr 18, 2024· Interview
The human brain does remarkable things and it does it on about 20 watts of power. And the AI techniques we use today use many kilowatts of power to do equivalent tasks.Jeff BezosDec 14, 2023· Interview
We believe that if we make both intelligence and energy “too cheap to meter”, the ultimate result will be that all physical goods become as cheap as pencils.Marc AndreessenOct 16, 2023· Essay

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