AI, GDP, Well-being and Energy
Quantitative analysis of AI's impact on energy, productivity and well-being using real World Bank, IEA and Penn World Table data rather than speculative projections.
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1. Electricity → well-being: the real mechanisms
Why reliable, inexpensive electricity enables health, logistics, industry and services. The difference between quantity (kWh) and quality (reliability, stability and outage cost):…
2. AI as an electrical technology
What AI means in terms of compute, data centers, training vs inference and efficiency—and why demand can keep growing even as hardware improves. The main bottlenecks: energy, chips, data,…
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