electricity

5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 15, 2018 by Linda Xie · across every show →

Everything said about electricity, oldest first

Dec 15, 2018 negative
Assertion Supported
Linda Xie: Bitcoin mining farms consume electricity comparable to small nation states
“Mining farms where they're actually consuming as much electricity as some small nation states.”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 7:26 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Jan 3, 2025
Insight
Midha: AI models fundamentally encode regional cultural values
“And this is the really important thing about AI models and how they're different from infrastructure like electricity, is there's a fundamental encoding of human values in AI models, because They're trained on data. And the data has these local norms and cultu…”
Anjney Midha Jan 3, 2025 ▶ 3:32 AI Is Becoming a Regional Race
Jan 3, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Midha: Humanity Has Produced Only Around 20 General-Purpose Technologies
“In the history of humanity, we've only had maybe 20 or 22 or so general purpose technologies, like electricity, the printing press, that have very broad based Applications in society.”
Anjney Midha Jan 3, 2025 ▶ 0:34 AI Is Becoming a Regional Race
Jul 16, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ulevitch: Society is underestimating long-term electricity demand for AI compute
“And so, I do think that compute is gonna just, I think we actually probably are underestimating the amount of compute that we're gonna soak up over the, with electricity over the next, you know, 10, 2030, 4050 years.”
David Ulevitch Jul 16, 2025 ▶ 20:42 America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
Apr 14, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: The US is completely out of available electricity capacity today
“We're pretty much out of electricity now in the United States, like, not, not 12 months from now, like, right now.”
Ben Horowitz Apr 14, 2026 ▶ 11:35 Ben Horowitz on AI Anxiety, Big Tech Transitions & The Future of Startups | a16z
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