USA Artificial Intelligence Energy Spending Compared To European Renewable Energy Wasting

AI Energy Spending And Renewable Energy Wasting 

To a friend: Glad, and unsurprised, that the AI potentially saved your life. Although I have long been aware of Deep Vein Thrombosis, DVT, I could imagine having symptoms without recognizing them and being called promptly to order by an AI. AI diagnosis is the future, now. Everybody ought to have a personal health AI Agent.

Actually my beloved dog has been gravely sick in his eyes for several months, one of which was coming out of his head initially. We went to see top specialists, spending much time and money. Part of the treatment worked, but also damaged his eyes (in a rare complication also occurring in humans for whom the same drug is prescribed in the same condition). His symptoms changed and  we were prescribed other drugs. Seeing further, but different, deterioration, even after the last expensive specialist visit, we are using AI in depth, and got interesting suggestions we immediately implemented.

I am extremely aware of DVT, and always take aspirin at significant doses before, during and after (intercontinental) flights. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that flying causes DVT (hey, I should ask Chat AI about the latest on DVT and flying; didn’t Jane Goodall die of it?). Although aware of DVT, having symptoms of it may well escape my attention, and an AI would help refocus me in a timely manner..

After reading several virulent anti-AI essays and comments, I did a bit more of the thinking which has been trotting in my head on that subject. My first reaction to acerbic critiques of AI is generally that they sound similar to the critiques directed at printing when it first appeared. Within a century, in a country as powerful and enlightened as France, thanks to the tyrant Francois Premier (et dernier!)printers were actually burned alive until reduced to a crisp. Consider the case of Etienne Dolet (although he was a friend of the influential doctor, philosopher and writer Rabelais). Some countries (like the Ottoman empire) outlawed printing for centuries (the result that Arabic and Persian fables such as the thousand and one nights were published in France first… So the “Orient” became literate in Occident…)

You see I am writing from Europe, and more exactly France, where the local oligarchic imbeciles known as legislators, professional wheeler-dealers who should not exist, are actually thinking of writing some anti-AI legislation. Next week. 

Already AI in Europe means slavery to US Artificial Intelligence. This is not happening because European researchers are less intelligent. Far from it, many have contributed in a major way to the development of AI, and have become legendary.

Here are the three founding fathers of AI: one from London, two from Paris:. One was born in London, and got the Nobel Prize for his foundational work on AI (AI uses extremely high dimensional multivariable calculus… So the mathematicians having developed this over centuries ought to be retrospectively thanked…). The other two were born in Paris, France.

Geoffrey Hinton: Born in London, UK, in 1947, Hinton is British-Canadian. He maintains strong ties to both countries through his education (Cambridge and Edinburgh) and long career at the University of Toronto.

Yann LeCun: Born in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, greater Paris, France, in 1960, LeCun is  now Franco-American. His early education was in Paris, and he later naturalized in the US while working at NYU and Meta.

Yoshua Bengio: Born in Paris, France, in 1964, Bengio is also Canadian. He moved to Canada and studied at McGill University in Montreal, He built his career there as a professor. One more exiled French.

Now, of course, if one is French and a genius, one will move away precipitously from the Woke Capital (Paris), where the only legal foreigners are illegals (getting free everything), or celebrities and plutocrats make luxury goods for snobbish Chinese (that will work until the Chinese start to despise the Europeans!)

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Why is AI developing mostly in the USA?

It’s happening because the US GDP dwarfs that, of, say, France. By a factor of eight or something like that. But not just that. The USA priorities are more oriented towards technological-economical performance, while France, and most of Europe, following, has focused on the woke-social-conservative-environmental development. France has done this in ALL domains in recent years, except for military technology, where France builds systems which are often world’s best, but in ridiculously small quantities.

This development of underdevelopment is EXTREMELY ANTI-FRENCH, when looked at on the scale of the last 25 centuries. Way back, Rome was getting weapons and armor from the Celts, and Gaul developed MECHANICAL HARVESTERS to the point that small Gallic farmers used the mechanical harvesters rather than slaves, and the Gallic economy resisted the establishment of slave driven giant agrobusinesses… After Gaul came under Franco-Roman management, Queen Bathilde promptly outlawed slavery (657 CE) and the Imperium Francorum-“Renovated Roman Empire” developed massive husbandry, systematic automation and mechanical leverage, to replace slavery… However France started to change attitude in the Sixteenth Century, when she refused to colonize North America, and, instead, traded with the Natives while teaching them civilization (so that the newly civilized “Indians” could be genocidized by the savage Iroquois…) The French development of this woke attitude culminated with the ejection of France from North America 250 years later… And various subsequent military defeats, including versus the Nazis (when it turned out that France’s own creation, the USA would not help in a timely manner…).

The result of the European policies has been an ever increasing dependency upon the USA and China, in ever more crucial domains. Part of this dependency is simply the mechanical effect that the USA and China make up 50% of the world’s GDP (and are economically entangled).

If one is European and really excellent in tech or science, the probability is high, should one be ambitious, to end up in the USA, with immensely larger budgets, salaries and opportunities. Meanwhile the French Federal Budget to “associations” exceeds high education AND research… Combined. “Associations” are just a woke trick for the Socialists in power (de facto) for 46 years to keep getting votes while, and in spite of the fact that, they ruin the country. (Anti-democratic) Associations get about $50 billion per year, nearly as much as defense.

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All of Europe has been doing “renewable” energy, and it’s partly a scam:

How does one “renew” in a typical foggy European winter night with extreme cold and no wind? Well, one does not. In parts of Europe, electricity prices have peaked ten times above the average of just a few years ago. In particular, Europe does not have enough energy for AI (except for places with lots of hydro power, and small populations, like Norway).

Carbon-free energy could have been developed, but the development and even maintenance of nuclear energy was discontinued in the 1990s… So now the US and China can use old European nuclear research and forge ahead.

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AI provides humanity with AGENCY. Just like printing or bronze metallurgy. AGENCY is more important than even Liberty. No agency, no liberty. Reciprocally, liberty does not necessarily provide agency: prehistoric people were free, but couldn’t do much, because they had little agency.

The environmental problems caused by AI are real, but they call to develop more carbon free energy. Some have suggested putting AI in space, where solar energy is abundant.

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Renewable Waste:

Speaking of renewables, studies related by the BBC in April 2026 show that, to make 45 GW of renewable electricity in Great Britain (the present electric power necessary to satisfy peak electric consumption of the UK), one needs to install 135 GW of mostly conventional (that is, carbon) energy. This ridiculous ratio, 135 to 45, shows that, instead of worrying about AI which they can’t power up, Europeans should rather worry about the renewable folly they engaged in without thinking it through. 

One of the causes for the ridiculous ratio is the necessity to build millions of kilometers of extremely high tension wires all over Europe, criss crossing… which is NOT feasible, so it’s not done, and local conventional backups are needed, all over…China had no problems installing such lines (those who too deeply disagree get shot), and, moreover, China has a simpler geography (hydro, wind and solar to the west, cities to the east). So China installed 250 GW of solar… And is not finished: the Hormuz blockade has blocked 30% of Chinese fuel imports… So China needs to develop more renewable energy…

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When I confronted Chat GPT with my sophisticated Tired Light hypothesis based on SQPR, it violently disagreed, calling me incompetent, obsolete, uneducated and from another age (to put it in only a few words)… Until the AI realized it had misunderstood, and started to run codes to check if my alternative to QFT actually predicted the correct Tired Light phenomenon. It did. That, no doubt, used electricity (the argument ran over weeks).   

However, most answers will require in the future less and less genuine research. Google just announced it found a way to make AI six times more efficient. In general, all AI are going to develop standard answers to FAQs…

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Humanity’s progress toward our quasi-divine present status, has been measured in spending ever more ABSOLUTE WORTH ENERGY. Basically doing ever more amazing things by manipulating energy. The Maltusian energy policy tried in Europe has thoroughly failed. It only achieved a relative collapse of the per capita GDP of Europe relative to peers, and new peers who are increasingly superior, such as China. A large body of evidence points to deliberate malfeasance, as Europe became mostly dependent upon plutocratic tyrannies for its energy procurement.  The same corrupt and extractive regimes then invested in Europe at premium prices, making European plutocrats wealther than ever. Please explain to me why Merkel closing German nuclear energy, which never had an accident, to build another twenty-four (24) coal plants, can make sense… Besides the obvious explanation that, just as she started her career in the service of a dictatorship monitored by Putin, she kept on going just the same, but more discreetly… In plain sight.

The error of European ways (except for the ever wealtheir European plutocrats) is so deep that France, which used to be the wealthiest significant European country per capita, has fallen below the EU average. Woke is dope. Putin knows all this, and that’s why he attacked. He just did not anticipate that Ukrainians believed in agency and progress, nor that the USA (Trump first, then Biden) would send them so many weapons to give Ukrainian agency a chance… . 

To be against AI is as intelligent as to be against health care (AI will dominate health care very soon). Anyway, what to expect from people who are against intelligence?

Patrice Ayme . 

‘Funny’ money and British Politics

For god’s sake Starmer get your act together and reform political financing. Even you, with your ‘Labour Together’ blinkers on must realise that now AS WELL AS corrupting politics (which it always has done), it is actively destroying Labour.

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