# Kardashev math: civilization needs 500x today's energy

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-06-24
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate 2025: Official Livestream (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 04:23:53 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiVrlo7XJA0&t=15833s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-06-24-kardashev-math-civilization-needs-500x-today-s-ene-jurk/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Kardashev math: civilization needs 500x today's energy," Akash Accelerate 2025: Official Livestream (Akash Network), 24 Jun 2025, 04:23:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiVrlo7XJA0&t=15833s

## Quote — verbatim

> Every leap forward is sparked by a new kind of fire... Now AI is igniting a new era. To reach Kardashev level one, we need 10 quadrillion watts. That's about 500 times our current global energy use... We're not just building better, smarter software. We're building the backbone of a new civilization, one that's built not just on data, but on decentralized energy and compute.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Opening of the keynote, framing decentralized energy and compute as civilizational infrastructure.