# Rolling blackouts by next year

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-08-02
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Solving the AI energy crisis \| Greg Osuri on what it takes to power AI (Changelog)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:27 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=747s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-08-02-rolling-blackouts-by-next-year-xf6a/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Rolling blackouts by next year," Solving the AI energy crisis \| Greg Osuri on what it takes to power AI (Changelog), 2 Aug 2025, 00:12:27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61OOQfY5cqU&t=747s

## Quote — verbatim

> It's not slowing down, the demand for GPUs and the demand for energy. Now if we don't do something about it, we will start seeing rolling blackouts by next year. We will start seeing an energy crisis similar to the oil crisis in the 1970s, or even much larger scale.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Summing up his Congressional testimony after listing Meta, Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic's competing buildouts (including Musk's stated 50M-GPU goal).