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AI as the grid's load balancer — the problem is transmission, not generation

"DACM Insights: Decentralizing AI, The Akash Approach" (DACM Insights)

“It’s not like we don’t have enough energy. We have a lot of energy — it’s just we cannot transmit [it] well… What do I do with excess energy? I can train AI with excess energy. So AI becomes now a load balancer for energy, which is a great solution to the power problem, because the grid won’t want to take your energy… the grid is very fragile.” — 00:16:03

Context: His argument that residential solar plus distributed training solves both the AI energy crunch and the curtailment problem (utilities capping home solar production). Quote spans into the [00:16:46] block.

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