# AI's power curve: 50MW on diesel today, 250MW next, then 1.2GW — only nuclear can feed it

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-24
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** AI Made in Cosmos - with Greg Osuri, Murthy Vitwit, Valery Litvin & Dean Tribble (Cosmoverse)
- **Watch at:** 00:11:37 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQnZEaMEHU&t=697s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2024-10-24-ai-s-power-curve-50mw-on-diesel-today-250mw-next-t-vbgr/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI's power curve: 50MW on diesel today, 250MW next, then 1.2GW — only nuclear can feed it," AI Made in Cosmos - with Greg Osuri, Murthy Vitwit, Valery Litvin & Dean Tribble (Cosmoverse), 24 Oct 2024, 00:11:37. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQnZEaMEHU&t=697s

## Quote — verbatim

> Grok 3... in Memphis data center takes about 50 megawatts, and if you ask me where they got 50 megawatts, they're actually burning diesel... The next model is going to be 250 megawatt and a model after that is going to be 1.2 gigawatt. The only place to get a 1.2 gigawatt capacity is a nuclear reactor.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Argues "the big challenge for training AI is not compute alone, it's actually power," growing half an order of magnitude a year (GPT-4 = ~10MW); notes ~70 approved-but-never-built US nuclear reactors.