Starmer’s Britain: The Death Knell for AI Energy?
Welcome to AI Collision 💥,
In today’s collision between AI and our world:
- Is Starmer about to blow up the UK nuclear policy?
- Fan in a hat? Sure. What about, fan in a chip?
- T800 at the baseball
If that’s enough to get the bombs exploding, read on…
AI Collision 💥
When we talk AI, we are also inevitably talking energy.
One does not exist without the other.
True story. Without energy AI is nothing. It requires huge amount of energy to function. As does our entire connected world. And for a long time we’ve been able to manage that.
But with AI exploding, and becoming a pervasive part of our lives, the energy demands this creates are set to skyrocket.
This creates a problem if energy demands exceed energy supplies. And if you think energy was expensive in 2021 and 2022, hold fire because it’s going to get WILD if the AI energy demand forecasts kick into gear.
To me there is only one solution.
Nuclear.
And I’ve written about this and sent you several videos on this over the last few months.
Well, here’s another.
Yesterday I got on a LIVESTREAM on YouTube with Nick Hubble, Editor over at Fortune & Freedom and Editor of The Fleet Street Letter to help me unpick the current situation of nuclear energy under a Starmer led UK government.
Also, Nick isn’t completely convinced as I am that nuclear is the answer. In fact he suggests, not even nuclear can save us front he mess we’re heading towards.
You can see the replay of our livestream (yes we were very live when we did it, and we’ll do more in the future) right on the video below:
Just one more thing before I move on to something else. Nick wanted me to share something else with you that we mention on our video…
If you’re concerned about your financial future under Kier Starmer’s Labour party.
You’ve likely heard warnings about the potential dangers for your money if Labour takes power.
But here’s what the headlines are missing: the real threat to British investors is far more severe and imminent than what’s being reported.
This looming danger is tied to a shadow currency that has triggered every major financial panic over the past half-century…
And it’s blowing up again.
By October 30th, a single announcement from Westminster could ignite the next wave of panic.
When that happens, one group of people could see their wealth skyrocket—and you could be one of them.
To learn more about this shadow currency, click right here to Nick’s brand new urgent broadcast which outlines everything you need to know.
AI gone wild 🤪
This is WILD if you’re a nerd like me.
Do you remember those “cool” novelty fan visors, you know the plastic ones that would slice through steel, but also apparently perfectly fine for 40 degree days, that also had a fan (and battery) in them?
These…
Yeah, well, imagine the high tech version of that for semiconductors.
Image a fan, that you bang onto a tiny chip to hep keep it cool on those crazy hot days.
Not just the hot days…everyday…because as you probably know, when the semiconductors in your phone are working hard, they’re running hot all the time.
A fan on a chip you say?
How wild and crazy are you Mr. Volkering?
Very.
Check out this below:
That’s it, that’s a “fan on a chip”.
You can see more detail via the xMEMS website here.
It’s a world first and for me actually one of the coolest (excuse the pun) things I’ve seen in semiconductor tech this year…and that’s saying something!
I think we’ll continue to see wild and crazy development in cooling technology for chips, for AI for datacentres…for all kinds of tech. And right here in August 2024 we’re seeing something quite big, that’s going quite unnoticed.
Boomers & Busters 💰
AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).
Boom 📈
- Appen (ASX:APX) up 45%
- Vicarious Surgical (NYSE:RBOT) up 30%
- BigBear.ai (NYSE:BBAI) up 25%
Bust 📉
- Amesite (NASDAQ:AMST) down 16%
- Veritone (NASDAQ:VERI) down 7%
- Vertiv Holdings (NASDAQ:VRT) down 7%
From the hive mind 🧠
- There are currently law suits against ChatGPT creator OpenAi about the sources used to train their AI models. While this is taking place, giant content publisher, Conde Nast has decided if you can’t beat em, strike a deal with em.
- Is AI hype? Is it being blown way out of proportion? Is it all just the proverbial straw man? The Economist seems to think the hype train that left the station has now returned. But then again, that’s exactly what you’d expect from The Economist.
- AI agents are going to be everywhere. They’re going to get so good at tasks that used to take humans a lot of time (and cost) that their use is simply unavoidable. This isn’t some ways off either, it’s happening right now and the legal profession is right in the sights of AI agents.
Artificial Polltelligence 🗳️
It’s new poll time!
And keeping on from the video Nick and I livestreamed and you can access above, I wonder what your thoughts are on what we were discussing. Whether you think I’m closer to the mark with how nuclear is going to roll out or whether Nick is?
In order to properly vote here that means you will need to watch (and listen) to what Nick and I are talking about! Haha, see what I did there…
Weirdest AI image of the day
2026: Major League Baseball soon regrets its Automatic Ball/Strike Robot Decision – r/weirddallee
ChatGPT’s random quote of the day
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, 2011
Thanks for reading, and don’t forget to leave comments and questions below,
Sam Volkering
Editor-in-Chief
AI Collision