# Watts are the new silicon

- **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:** 00:04:25 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BIIiQquYFI&t=265s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-07-01-watts-are-the-new-silicon-w7lx/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Watts are the new silicon," Akash Accelerate 2025 - Greg Osuri Keynote (Akash Network), 1 Jul 2025, 00:04:25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BIIiQquYFI&t=265s

## Quote — verbatim

> In this new era, watts are the new silicon. Power isn't just an input. It's the bottleneck and the battleground.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His signature aphorism for the AI-energy era, following the point that "the problem isn't silicon, it's supply."