# Kardashev Type One requires 500x today's global energy

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-01
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate 2025 - Greg Osuri Keynote (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:00:03 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BIIiQquYFI&t=3s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-07-01-kardashev-type-one-requires-500x-today-s-global-en-4ho5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Kardashev Type One requires 500x today's global energy," Akash Accelerate 2025 - Greg Osuri Keynote (Akash Network), 1 Jul 2025, 00:00:03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BIIiQquYFI&t=3s

## Quote — verbatim

> To reach Kardashev level one, we need 10 quadrillion watts. That's about 500 times our current global energy use. That scale of ambition we are stepping into.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Keynote opening; frames AI as the "new fire" and energy as the defining constraint of the era.