The thinking goes 'if we don't build Skynet first, then China will, so it's better we be in charge of the Terminators...'

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To be fair though, pur grid is absolutely ass and held together by electrical tape and broken dreams. Because it turns out apending the 40 years gutting the public sector of everything useful and not doing proper maintainence left the US unable to adapt. I apend a lot of time in Lakewood Ohio, a trendy and high density suburb of Cleveland, and they have had weekly blackouts all year because First Energy (of corruption infamy) has refused to do the necessary upkeep.

Privatizing our utilities was a mistake

Articles like this are being pushed by AI CEOs and investors to force the US public to pay for grid upgrades to support their profit making. Socialize costs, privatize profits.

Tone of article is more about the hopeless situation for US. It correctly highlights China's humanist economics of abundance. The US, as the most corrupt country in the world, not only makes policy for insider trader benefits, but is also committed to climate terrorist interests, and climate terrorist only energy expansion.

In China, renewables are framed as a cornerstone of the economy because they make sense economically and strategically, not because they carry moral weight.

Even under Biden, war on Russia was designed to boost climate terrorism energy and capture of EU markets, including blatant sabotage of Nordstream, despite moral gesticulations supporting renewables.

To your point, every media guest, will tell us that it is a national security priority as great as nuclear weapons dominance to support the achievement of Skynet even if all electricity consumers other than trillionaire tech companies face triple electricity costs. If we are not made miserable through absolute pillage for oligarchs, then China will win, is the propaganda manipulation.

In truth, and best way to understand article, is that if you prioritize AI dominance over climate terrorism, then cheap Chinese energy (solar) and batteries is the path to quickly develop AI datacenters. Climate terrorism and consumer extortion profits is the greater priority of US policy, which infact dooms the US to lose at its Skynet utopia objective.

All while being the same asswipes gobbling up such an obscene amount of gdp that the public can't possibly pay it.

Won't someone think of the tech bros?

You don't need to change your political system to have sound energy policies.

While China has invested enormously in renewable energy, they have also invested enormously in fossil fuels.

China decided to end their dependence on fossil fuels, and I decided to retire by age 45. Me and China are about equally close to achieving our goals.

Also: China’s construction of new coal-power plants ‘reached 10-year high’ in 2024

It doesn't seem like this "AI expert" knows a lot about anything. Perhaps he is too high on his own supply, getting all his knowledge from hallucinating chatbots.

I don't think the GOP is racing to build coal plants. They just use coal as a political tool to win votes. And when they win, the idiots that think Republicans are going to save their coal jobs get what they deserved.

That we should build more coal plants to ´win´ the AI race?

But! Zuck said they recently saw AI able to work on tasks that involve improving the software that manages AI! He said that means we are not far from super intelligence!

the extrapolation these guys make without new paradigm’s in mind is evidence of a wall and bubble for me

While AI (as it is currently done) is a bubble,

the article is still rather interesting. It discusses that China's grid is superior because it has state backing, instead of being privately owned (and therefore short-sighted). Which is true, and America has a lesson to learn from that, if it wants to have a part of the future.

By the way, the same goes for public infrastructure and housing. The state should invest heavily in these and provide them efficiently as a community service long-term, instead of relying on private parties to take care of these needs.

Yeah, it's crazy what you can do when you don't have to pay people, and you can instantly stomp out all dissent.

coal and NG electricity production declined in 2024. Building new coal plants doesn't mean using them. Another 1tw of solar this year will reduce this further.

China values actual technical skills and knowledge. The US values talentless hacks who exploit the labor of those that actually have technical skills and knowledge.