Artificial Intelligence Needs Electricity, and Electricity Needs Freedom

"Building a new transmission line in the US now takes about 10 years, while generation projects spend multiple years stuck in interconnection queues, with more than 2,600 gigawatts of capacity now in queues nationwide. America is trying to power a permission-less innovation boom in AI with an agonizingly slow, permission-first utility regime, and the results are predictably bad.

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For policymakers who want to support unleashing American energy and innovation, the AI moment may provide a perfect opportunity for reform."

https://travisfisher.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-needs-electricity