Without energy abundance, America loses the AI race

[rangerrebew]

Without energy abundance, America loses the AI race
By
David Holt
|
May 6th, 2025

America stands at a historic energy crossroads that is arguably as critical to our future global leadership as was the completion of the Transcontinental Railway or the interstate highway system. The decisions we make today about our energy future will determine whether we lead or follow in the global AI revolution and whether we maintain our economic edge over China.

To understand the magnitude of what’s coming, we need to look at where we’ve been. From 1920-2021, America’s energy consumption grew fourfold – electricity consumption alone grew 100-fold – as we transformed from a developing industrial nation to the world’s leading economic superpower.

This massive expansion fueled unprecedented prosperity for American families, farmers, and businesses. It spurred incredible innovation, efficiency, and conservation in everything from transportation and distribution, medical care, the digital revolution, manufacturing, farming, textiles, milling, construction, appliances, plastics, and even personal leisure.

https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/06/without-energy-abundance-america-loses-the-ai-race/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=without-energy-abundance-america-loses-the-ai-race&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=without-energy-abundance-america-loses-the-ai-race

[Free Vulcan]

And therein lies the problem as the AI race is not one I wish to win, yet we need abundant energy for the economy.

[DefiantMassRINO]

AI Race:
    America - 0
    Chinese Communist Party and Its Useful Global Climate Change Idiots - 1

[IsailedawayfromFR]

And therein lies the problem as the AI race is not one I wish to win, yet we need abundant, reliable and inexpensive energy for the economy.

[Fishrrman]

Vulcan fulminates:
"And therein lies the problem as the AI race is not one I wish to win..."

I guess I'm a heretic, but I predict that the "AI race", "AI boom", or whatever you wish to call it is eventually going to go the same way as did the "dot.com" boom (remember that ??)...