Energy Bottlenecks Looming Around 2030
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-07-11
Additional perspectives suggest that without genuine breakthroughs like small modular nuclear reactors or nuclear fusion, the next few years—especially around 2030—could face major crises.
- No viable solutions have been identified yet.
- This implies that the critical constraint on model scaling might not be training methodologies, but rather energy itself.
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