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

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-02-12
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** "DACM Insights: Decentralizing AI, The Akash Approach" (DACM Insights)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:03 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQONg2f0zQc&t=963s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2026-02-12-ai-as-the-grid-s-load-balancer-the-problem-is-tran-p6hz/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI as the grid's load balancer — the problem is transmission, not generation," "DACM Insights: Decentralizing AI, The Akash Approach" (DACM Insights), 12 Feb 2026, 00:16:03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQONg2f0zQc&t=963s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.