Musk said that the development of artificial intelligence may face an electricity crisis next year

ChainCatcher news, according to CNBC, Elon Musk stated on Tuesday that as the technology industry builds increasingly large data centers, the development of artificial intelligence may face power production bottlenecks from mid-next year to the end of the year. Musk revealed that his AI startup xAI is constructing a gigawatt-level data center outside Memphis, Tennessee, with a power output equivalent to that of the average nuclear power plant in the United States. He pointed out that AI expansion faces three major limitations: chips, transformers, and power generation capacity.

Google warned as early as February this year that the U.S. is facing a power capacity crisis and has begun exploring nuclear energy solutions. Musk also compared that China's power production is "taking off like a rocket," while the U.S. is "staying steady," highlighting the gap between the two countries in the competition for AI infrastructure.