# 50MW today, 250MW in 2026, 1.2GW the year after

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-01-02
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** "AI Sovereignty: Building the Path to Individual AI with Greg Osuri" (The Outpost Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:29:23 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-sovereignty-building-the-path-to-individual-ai/id1779395525?i=1000682416476
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-01-02-50mw-today-250mw-in-2026-1-2gw-the-year-after-76yh/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "50MW today, 250MW in 2026, 1.2GW the year after," "AI Sovereignty: Building the Path to Individual AI with Greg Osuri" (The Outpost Podcast), 2 Jan 2025, 00:29:23. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-sovereignty-building-the-path-to-individual-ai/id1779395525?i=1000682416476

## Quote — verbatim

> Elon Musk is literally burning diesel because you cannot get energy anywhere to power 50 megawatt data center. And next year, 26, we're going to need 250 megawatt data center, right? To make the better GPT, like, whatever, 5 or 6. And a year after that, we're going to need 1.2 gigawatt data center.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

xAI's Memphis site as the state of the art; he then walks through US nuclear being fully booked (Three Mile Island to Microsoft on a 20-year deal), 65 approved reactors, and 7–14-year build times ([00:30:46]–[00:31:27]).