# By 2030, 20% of US electricity will be consumed by AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-16
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Network's Greg Osuri on AI Fueling 1,729% Growth (Coinage)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:59 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8F-Ac0mitI&t=959s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2024-10-16-by-2030-20-of-us-electricity-will-be-consumed-by-a-7oiu/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "By 2030, 20% of US electricity will be consumed by AI," Akash Network's Greg Osuri on AI Fueling 1,729% Growth (Coinage), 16 Oct 2024, 00:15:59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8F-Ac0mitI&t=959s

## Quote — verbatim

> The energy needs to catch up... I think the prediction now is by 2030, 20% of US electricity production will be consumed by AI. So we don't have infrastructure to even power that power requirement — we need to build nuclear reactors.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Immediately followed by his vision of decentralized data centers (Akash), decentralized energy grids that trade power, and decentralized wireless/bandwidth marketplaces.