Friday, August 15, 2025

China's AI Advantage Is A Superior Power Grid

David Fishman, a Chinese electricity expert who has spent years tracking their energy development, told Fortune that in China, electricity isn't even a question. On average, China adds more electricity demand than the entire annual consumption of Germany, every single year. Whole rural provinces are blanketed in rooftop solar, with one province matching the entirety of India's electricity supply. ... However, the clear limiting factor to the U.S.'s data center infrastructure development, according to a Deloitte industry survey, is stress on the power grid. Cities' power grids are so weak that some companies are just building their own power plants rather than relying on existing grids. The public is growing increasingly frustrated over increasing energy bills " in Ohio, the electricity bill for a typical household has increased at least $15 this summer from the data centers " while energy companies prepare for a sea-change of surging demand.

Comments

Why the ---- would anyone move to Texas?

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-15 10:17 PM

swimming in AI hype....

here's my answer:

www.youtube.com

#2 | Posted by South_American at 2025-08-15 10:55 PM

This is true.

The West is hobbling itself reducing fossil fuels and ignoring nuclear.

It's hilarious China sends the West solar panels to destroy itself.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-16 02:12 AM

... a Chinese electricity expert who has spent years tracking their energy development, told Fortune that in China, electricity isn't even a question. On average, China adds more electricity demand than the entire annual consumption of Germany, every single year. ...

Why China is becoming the world's first electrostate
www.abc.net.au

... In April this year, China installed more solar power than Australia has in all its history. In one month.

This isn't a story about Australia's poor track record on solar; Australia is a global leader. Rather, this shows the astonishing rate at which China is embracing renewable technologies across every aspect of its society.

But don't make the mistake of thinking this transformation is driven by a moral obligation to act on climate change.

China's reasons for this are less about arresting rising temperatures than its desire to stop relying on imported fossil fuels and to fix the pollution caused by them.

The superpower has put its economic might and willpower behind renewable technologies, and by doing so, is accelerating the end of the fossil fuel era and bringing about the age of the electrostate. ...



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 06:50 PM

John Hall - Plutonium is forever (1979)
www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 06:52 PM

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