# Kardashev Type One needs 500x today's energy; AI is the new fire

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-06-27
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Beyond GPUs: How Decentralization Can Solve AI's Biggest Scaling Bottleneck \| Day 2 \| Crypto x AI (Blockworks)
- **Watch at:** 00:00:04 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgD4BzHEcu4&t=4s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-06-27-kardashev-type-one-needs-500x-today-s-energy-ai-is-uuff/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Kardashev Type One needs 500x today's energy; AI is the new fire," Beyond GPUs: How Decentralization Can Solve AI's Biggest Scaling Bottleneck \| Day 2 \| Crypto x AI (Blockworks), 27 Jun 2025, 00:00:04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgD4BzHEcu4&t=4s

## Quote — verbatim

> Every great leap is lit by a new kind of fire. Steam ushered in the industrial age. Electricity powered cities. The internet connected the minds... Now AI is lighting a new kind of fire. To reach \[Kardashev\] level one, we need 10 quadrillion watts. That's about 500 times our global current energy use.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Opening framing, identical to his Akash Accelerate 2025 keynote days later.