Investor: market underestimates compute demand 1,000x, heading terawatt-scale
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-21
In a thread shared by inductionheads, jarrenfeldman argues financial models treat AI data centers like standard enterprise cloud spending, underestimating compute demand over 20-30 years by at least 1,000x. Continuous autonomous background reasoning and real-time spatial computing will break traditional grid connections, pushing power needs to terawatt scale. The bottleneck won't be semiconductors or HBM yields but securing behind-the-meter baseload energy like SMRs plus direct-to-chip liquid cooling. "Intelligence will be the largest market in the solar system."
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