What I Read This Week…
U.S. AI companies are facing electrical grid constraints, Chinese startup DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, and scientists are working to overcome limitations in cryopreservation
Watch the All-In Holiday Spectacular Read our Deep Dive: A Primer on Cryptocurrencies Caught My Eye… U.S. AI companies are facing electrical grid constraints as their computing needs outstrip existing power and data center capacity. What's going on? Training large AI models requires massive computing power – for example, training GPT-4 reportedly used more electricity than 5,000 U.S. homes consume in a year. This growing power demand is straining both the electrical grid's transmission capacity and the availability of data centers with sufficient power supply, leading to voltage…
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