Can AI solve the energy problem it created?

It costs about $5 and takes roughly 15 minutes to train an AI model that can help determine where America’s next data centers should be built. That’s not a rounding error. The world is debating hundred-billion-dollar AI investments and warning that we need fleets of new power plants, yet one of the most important pieces of the puzzle costs about as much as a pack of gum. Before we build another plant, we should figure out how much of the grid we’re already leaving on the table. Much has been made of AI’s power requirements, and for good reason. Bloomberg projects that data centers will cons...