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AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over (fortune.com)
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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given,” Rui Ma wrote on X after returning from a recent tour of China’s AI hubs. 

For American AI researchers, that’s almost unimaginable. In the U.S., surging AI demand is colliding with a fragile power grid, the kind of extreme bottleneck that Goldman Sachs warns could severely choke the industry’s growth.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Aha. I see the angle they're going for. "we need more energy to ~~compete against the baddies~~ undercut the working class"