energy

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 27, 2026 by Sam Lessin · across every show →

Everything said about energy, oldest first

Feb 27, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: AI models will commoditize and price at energy cost
“The, you know, the original narrative was someone would get to AGI and then that would be the end of the game is not how this is playing out. Everyone's gonna get to the same shit. It's all commodity. It's all getting a price to the cost of energy. And it's al…”
Sam Lessin Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 13:05 Apple, OpenAI & Why Nobody Makes Money in AI | The SaaS Apocalypse · More or Less Podcast
Mar 6, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: AI will be low-margin commodity determined entirely by energy costs
“This is basically all gonna back to energy at some level. There's not gonna be that very much margin in it. And like, low cost intelligence production is going to be the key.”
Sam Lessin Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 47:32 Fire Sam Altman, The End of Software Engineers, and Why AI Is All Narrative · More or Less Podcast
Mar 6, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2031
Morin: China will produce cheaper energy than the US across all metrics
“They're going to have access to lower cost energy. Like there there's like under no metric, whether it's number of solar panels, number of nuclear power plants, like they are going to have the cheaper energy based on how things are going right now.”
Dave Morin Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 47:06 Fire Sam Altman, The End of Software Engineers, and Why AI Is All Narrative · More or Less Podcast
May 1, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Sam Lessin argues energy and memory are where AI money is made
“Actually this, it's going to be energy and memory. Energy and memory is where the money is made.”
Sam Lessin May 1, 2026 ▶ 44:25 Elon Musk vs OpenAI Trial, Google Cloud Surge, Meta’s Blocked Acquisition, Anthropic Winning · More or Less Podcast
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