US Falling Behind China in AI Energy Race, Anthropic Says

US falling behind China in AI energy race, Anthropic says

The Silicon Valley start-up says it is ‘concerning’ that the US added only one-tenth of the power capacity that China added last year.

🟣 EV Daily: Anthropic demands a power surge ⚡

Lead story: ⚡ Anthropic demands a power surgeAnthropic estimates that the US will need to build 50 gigawatts of new power capacity by 2028 to meet the demand for AI. That’s nearly twice New York State’s peak summer load, or the output of 33 nuclear reactors. The warning comes as OpenAI and Oracle have just announced new Stargate AI data centers that will consume 4.5 gigawatts of power themselves. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who wrote the Situational …

Anthropic Says US Should Not Adopt China’s Approach to Build and Permit Large-Scale Infrastructure

Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Amazon, released a report on July 22 outlining various strategies for the United States to build the infrastructure needed to maintain its lead in AI.  The report focuses on overcoming regulatory, supply chain and other barriers without new congressional authorities.  “To be clear, the United States should not adopt China’s approach to permitting and building large infrastructure,” Anthropic said in one of the…