increasing – and its progress is increasingly bottlenecked not by data or algorithms, but by the grid and strains related to demand. While AI presently places considerable demands on the energy sector hardware efficiency are critical to offset the strain of increasing AI and internet usage on our grid. So far, though, they have not been enough. This trend aligns with Jevons Paradox, first proposed This is driving new focus on expanding energy production capacity – and new questions about the grid’s ability to manage. Yet again, we see this as one of the perpetual ‘a-ha’s’ of technology: costs