{"id":12835286,"date":"2025-08-19T18:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12835286"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:15:32","slug":"what-happens-if-ai-hits-an-energy-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2025\/08\/19\/what-happens-if-ai-hits-an-energy-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens If AI Hits An Energy Wall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Post header\">\n<h2 class=\"post-title published title-X77sOw\" dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/what-happens-if-ai-hits-an-energy?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user%2FSubstack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Happens If AI Hits An Energy Wall?<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">The technology driving the economy has some big problems<\/h3>\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-paddingBottom-16 pc-reset\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Post UFI\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-paddingTop-16 pc-paddingBottom-16 pc-reset\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-12 pc-alignItems-center pc-reset byline-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-reset\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-row pc-gap-8 pc-alignItems-center pc-justifyContent-flex-start pc-reset\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-row pc-alignItems-center pc-justifyContent-flex-start pc-reset ltr-qDBmby\">\n<div class=\"profile-hover-card-target profileHoverCardTarget-PBxvGm\">By <a class=\"pencraft pc-reset decoration-hover-underline-ClDVRM reset-IxiVJZ\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@paulkrugman\">Paul Krugman<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>This is the way the bubble ends. This is the way the bubble ends. This is the way the bubble ends: Not with a pop, but with smog and brownouts.<\/p>\n<p>What? I\u2019ll explain in a minute. But first, a word from MechaHitler.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably heard about the problems Elon Musk has been having with Grok, his entry in the artificial intelligence sweepstakes. He keeps trying to stop Grok from giving answers he doesn\u2019t like, for example telling users (correctly) that right-wing violence is more frequent and deadly than left-wing violence. But his efforts to make Grok less woke keep making it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/09\/nx-s1-5462609\/grok-elon-musk-antisemitic-racist-content\" rel=\"\">racist and antisemitic<\/a>\u00a0instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/what-happens-if-ai-hits-an-energy?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user%2FSubstack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Happens If AI Hits An Energy Wall? The technology driving the economy has some big problems By Paul Krugman \u00a0 This is the way the bubble ends. This is the way the bubble ends. This is the way the bubble ends: Not with a pop, but with smog and brownouts. What? I\u2019ll explain in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12835287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22331,26292,26922,21,1,12,26295],"tags":[26310,524,26302],"class_list":{"0":"post-12835286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence-ai-generative-ai-chatgpt-natural-language-processing","8":"category-energy","9":"category-market-news","10":"category-available","11":"category-uncategorized","12":"category-phils-favorites","13":"category-technology","14":"tag-ai","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12835286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12835288,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835286\/revisions\/12835288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12835287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12835286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12835286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12835286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}