"Watts are the new silicon"
Akash Accelerate 2025: Official Livestream (Akash Network)
“Gartner predicts by 2026, 40% of all new AI data centers may not be able to get enough power to run. That’s not a future risk. It’s a near-term constraint. In this new era, watts are the new silicon. Power isn’t just an input. It’s the bottleneck and the battleground.” — 04:28:19
Context: His signature framing of energy as the binding constraint on AI; precedes the three levers (efficiency, clean supply, decentralized compute).