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The Future of Intelligence Is on the Grid

Why the AI revolution won't fit in your pocket

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Dave Friedman
May 16, 2025
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Everyone’s waiting for GPT‑5 to show up on their MacBook.

But the real action isn’t happening in your laptop fan. It’s unfolding across gigawatt-scale data centers, power substations, and sovereign infrastructure projects. The future of intelligence isn’t local. It’s industrial. It doesn’t run on your battery. It runs on the grid.

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