Tesla CEO and xAI founder Elon Musk declared last month that there won’t be enough electricity to meet demand as soon as next year. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agrees and suggests that nuclear fusion breakthroughs could be the only way to truly overcome AI’s energy use problem (nuclear fission plants for AI are in demand, too).
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who’s largely pivoted his tech firm from the metaverse to AI development, even admits that tech companies are more likely to run out of electricity before they run out of money.