we're living through a generational, life-changing technological revolution and it's getting almost zero attention compared to AI spambots

Tbf, I'm not forced to think about the battery revolution every time I attempt a google search, or open a frickin PDF

The question is how much of the new energy supply is gonna be hoovered up by poorly optimized AI data centers. My hopeful take is that AI investors are gonna be the biggest pushers for new sources of energy so that people don't come after them with pitchforks, but we'll see.

I like this take and hope it’s true that AI is not very important but I think the techies might be right and AI might destroy us all. Spambots are currently not that impressive but frankly most humans are not that impressive either…

Cal ISO electricity supply chart for today. Almost 20 GW of renewables currently, almost all solar.

Never underestimate the power of the thousands of us B+ to C- engineers to keep chunking away at problems, especially when there’s a government sending clear incentives and regulations to help solutions converge Wide implementation is how the world changes at scale; new ideas are easy and overrated

ya I wonder about this too. The grifter linkedin "entrepeneur" class are all working on AI startups instead of making some awful slick startup called "Li-On-ly" or something to sell batteries. Mostly seems like its nerd civil engineer types running things in the green energy space (complimentary)

A guess of course, but when the major operators in the AI space realize the demand isn't there and that they have a surplus of energy on their hands, those 1 or 2 quarters of adjusting the markets for energy might be the moment that feels revolutionary.

is there a good single overview or explainer you can recommend

Tech bubbles are fun and profitable - for those who get in first. Real progress takes work.

I'm very glad for this implementation but you have a weird definition of technological revolution. (Chatbots aren't revolutionary either) Pretty much every technological solution we need to every problem is there, it's just about willingness to do it