The Future of AI and Energy
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It was very important for me to get an Environmental writer to cover the impact of AI on Energy to offer my readers balanced coverage. Today’s piece reflects this mission.
We are getting more clarity on BigTech’s capex spending in 2025. Now that Google and Amazon have completed earnings, the picture is a bit more clear. Generative Value Newsletter by
prepared this infographic that can help us visualize it.
As impressive as $320 Billion is, it does not take into account how much OpenAI’s Stargate project will invest in Texas and other locations, possibly in the area of another $30-50 Billion in 2025 (although their claim of $100 Billion is fairly suspect even with Softbank’s help). All told, this means BigTech capex will likely increase in the area of 60-65% from 2024, which almost frames AI Infrastructure, as a Military AI Apollo-like project of the U.S.
My call out to Environmental writers has paid off as
of The Weekly Anthropocene has taken time to write a very decent and well researched piece below on the relationship of AI and the future of Energy.Discover the Weekly Anthropocene 🗺️⁀જ✈︎
I count myself lucky to have people of Sam’s calibre contribute to my publication. 🌿 Sam’s global outlook and data-driven independent journalism appeals to me as he expertly mixes up in-depth interviews, deep dives, book reviews, his travels, and nerdy side.
The Weekly Anthropocene
🚀 Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Maestro and Utopian.
🪐 Investigating India 2024: Collected Articles
🌏 Don't Worry About Human Population Growth—or Decline
⌛ Review: Inheritors of the Earth by Chris D. Thomas
Sam has been diligently writing The Weekly Anthropocene since October, 2017. 🗺️ Building Maps, on a global journey that has my full respect. 🏞️
The Techno-optimism of the piece along lines of renewable energy’s potential is highlighted. AI could also be a catalyst to helping to solve power bottlenecks in the years and decades ahead.
The Future of AI and Energy
By Sam Matey, January, 2025.
I'm Sam Matey, an early career environmental scientist, climate journalist, data scientist, and GIS analyst (i.e. digital mapmaker). I'm 24, and I'm from the Portland, Maine area in the USA, though I've also worked in Madagascar, the Netherlands, and India. Since 2017, I've been writing The Weekly Anthropocene (now on Substack!), a weekly e-newsletter on progress towards a better relationship between humanity and our biosphere. I'm particularly interested in climate change solutions, proactive wildlife conservation, and the clean energy revolution.
The future of AI, and human civilization, will be clean, green, and running on cheap, abundant solar power. AI-generated image.
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