Specialized silicon will solve the AI-driven energy panic.
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Twenty-nine jet engines sit in a West Texas field. Crusoe, an infrastructure partner to OpenAI, ordered them in two batches from late 2024 through mid-2025. Each unit produces about 35 megawatts of electricity; together they produce a gigawatt, about the same output as a nuclear reactor.
Such investments reflect a fashionable worry that AI’s appetite for electricity will choke the current AI boom—that the United States will run out of power before it runs out of demand for AI computation.
