“Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given,” Rui Ma wrote on X after returning from a recent tour of China’s AI hubs. For American AI researchers, that’s almost unimaginable. In the U.S., surging AI demand is colliding with a fragile power grid, the kind of extreme bottleneck that Goldman Sachs warns could…
Alex W., AI engineer, Silicon Valley 🧠 Prologue: A Tempting Offer Alex was just 29 when the offer came in. A sleek email, encrypted and polite, from a tech recruiter in Shenzhen. “\$500,000 annually,” it promised. “We’re building the future of global intelligence. You’ll lead a team of 40.” Alex froze. He wasn’t a…
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