The AI race is becoming an electricity race.
The focus in AI discussions has shifted from models to infrastructure. Data centers' massive electricity consumption is straining utilities, prompting governments to view AI infras…
Five years ago, most AI discussions were about models.
Today, the bottleneck is starting to look very different.
Data centers are consuming enormous amounts of electricity. Utilities are struggling to keep up, and governments are starting to treat AI infrastructure as industrial policy rather than just a tech issue.
It raises an interesting question:
Will the countries that lead AI be the ones with the best models, or the ones that can build power generation, data centers, semiconductor capacity, and grid infrastructure fast enough to support them?
It feels like AI is becoming as much an infrastructure race as a software race.
Curious how others here see it.
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