The AI Power Bill Is Landing in Your Mailbox
The electricity to run AI data centers is showing up on ordinary household bills, and it has sparked a rare bipartisan backlash: moratoriums in 300 towns, cost-shifting laws in 27 states, and a presidential pledge. But the fights are being won at county councils, not the utility commissions where rates are actually set.
Read full story →The Other Way to Power AI: Plan It From the Top
While America argues over who pays, China is orchestrating a grid-and-compute "symbiosis" and Korea has unveiled a plan to power AI entirely with clean energy. The blueprints are bold, but India's experience is a warning: the real bottleneck is rarely generation, it is the wires in between.
Read full story →AI Nailed the First Draft. The Rest Is Where It Stalls.
Adoption has raced ahead, but the productivity boom keeps not arriving. New research points to two culprits the models never touch: a Brookings experiment shows people disengage when AI does the creative part, while a Knak survey finds the real bottleneck is the approvals and handoffs between a draft and a launch.
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