AI compute is not the new oil. Demand for oil is very inelastic: it's very difficult to increase the thermodynamic efficiency of the physical processes that convert oil into energy. AI compute efficiency, on the other hand, is improving exponentially. AI will end up being just slightly more expensive than the raw electricity required to produce it.
Data center demand right now has much more to do with private credit's demand for new deals, since the binge they went on around the pandemic led to the accumulation of a lot of bad debt and depreciating assets. Data centers are a tool for extracting money from insurance trusts and pension funds to prop up private credit and create debt-driven artificial "revenue" for the hyperscalers and Nvidia.
Yeah AI is electricity, not oil. It's boring but it's already true.
I'm building a side business and decided to go with open router because that's what AI is going to look like in the future. Just intelligence/$ everything else kind of not important.
Unless, they solve the issue of model output diversity and Claude becomes very different from ChatGPT
I think that's starting to happen. There's a new vibecoded project shown off here almost every day. YouTube has gotten a lot more entertainment rising above the slop. People are beginning to realise what AI can do for them.
AI compute is not the new oil. Demand for oil is very inelastic: it's very difficult to increase the thermodynamic efficiency of the physical processes that convert oil into energy. AI compute efficiency, on the other hand, is improving exponentially. AI will end up being just slightly more expensive than the raw electricity required to produce it.
Data center demand right now has much more to do with private credit's demand for new deals, since the binge they went on around the pandemic led to the accumulation of a lot of bad debt and depreciating assets. Data centers are a tool for extracting money from insurance trusts and pension funds to prop up private credit and create debt-driven artificial "revenue" for the hyperscalers and Nvidia.
Yeah AI is electricity, not oil. It's boring but it's already true.
I'm building a side business and decided to go with open router because that's what AI is going to look like in the future. Just intelligence/$ everything else kind of not important.
Unless, they solve the issue of model output diversity and Claude becomes very different from ChatGPT
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AI has to take us where We want to go before its compute can be considered on par with oil.
I think that's starting to happen. There's a new vibecoded project shown off here almost every day. YouTube has gotten a lot more entertainment rising above the slop. People are beginning to realise what AI can do for them.
infrastructure project big enough to affect qol in neighborhood: checked
corruption: checked
regulatory capture: in progress
Ya, the new oil.
"We need a market for the largest capex in history"
"Why will nobody buy my Tulips?"
AI news is the new IDGAF and needs a new website.
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