Jeff HassemerCEO, FirestarterMarketing.ai · The Strategy Architect | Agency Accelerator | Architecting Bold Strategies | AI + Marketing That Scales | Founder @ FireStarterMarketing.AI

Energy won’t stop AI — efficiency will #substack #shorts

3 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In a brief conversational exchange, Speaker A argues that ongoing improvements in chip efficiency, memory capacity, and bandwidth are dramatically increasing processing power per unit of energy, effectively turning AI's energy consumption concerns into a non‑issue despite broader energy shortages. Speaker B acknowledges this point. The key takeaway is that hardware advancements are self‑solving the energy challenge for AI.

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I think the other important part of this story is this memory and bandwidth piece, right? So we're getting massive improvements in like processing power and energy usage and intelligence per compute minute out there. And so we, you know, we sit there and we talk about this energy shortage and all this problem that's going on with energy. And I feel like with improvements in how efficient these chips are and how efficient these things are running, that's almost becoming a non-issue.
Yeah.
You know? And it's solving itself in many ways.
We talked about that a couple weeks ago when like one of these topics was the energy usage and the crisis behind that. And I think we both agreed, you know, free market's going to figure this out. There's going to be so much money in figuring out how to make energy efficient uses of this that it's going to happen and it's already starting to happen.