# "We underpredicted" the AI energy crunch

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-07-29
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** AI Data Centers Are Eating the Grid. Is There Another Way? (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:23 — https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440361/episodes/19568316-ai-data-centers-are-eating-the-grid-is-there-another-way
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2026-07-29-we-underpredicted-the-ai-energy-crunch-k4hj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, ""We underpredicted" the AI energy crunch," AI Data Centers Are Eating the Grid. Is There Another Way? (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 29 Jul 2026, 00:02:23. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440361/episodes/19568316-ai-data-centers-are-eating-the-grid-is-there-another-way

## Quote — verbatim

> To remind folks, 2024, I think overall data center usage was around 415 terawatt hours. And that was expected to grow to around 980 terawatt hours by 2030. It's about two and a half times growth.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Host asks him to score the energy prediction he made on the show a year earlier. He immediately follows with "I think we underpredicted that" [00:03:16].