Alex is the founder of the Terawatt Times Institute, developing cognitive-structural frameworks for AI, energy transitions, and societal change. His work examines how emerging technologies reshape political behavior and civilizational stability.
Professional Tier | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 7 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Across six nations, the AI race collides with a deeper constraint: chips scale ideas, but grids scale reality. The United States holds unmatched semiconductor power yet faces a paralyzed transmission network.
Abstract In 1948, Claude Shannon established information theory, defining how bits can be transmitted with fidelity through noisy channels, but explicitly excluded the transmission of meaning—the so-called "semantic problem" [1]. Seventy-seven years later, as Large Language Models (LLMs) emerge as primary "readers" of human content,
Professional Tier | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 6 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary The next two years mark a fleeting window in which commercial batteries shift from idle backup assets to active grid participants. Falling hardware costs, evolving regulations, and high volatility in select
Professional Tier | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 5 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary As AI's immense energy demand collides with the aging public grid, tech giants like Amazon and Google are becoming the "New Edisons" of our time by constructing
The Energy Law of Civilizational Intelligence
Professional Tier | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 4 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary The global power system is undergoing a structural repricing—not a marginal shift in electricity rates but a redefinition of value, scarcity, and access itself. Four forces drive this transformation: chaos,
Professional Tier | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 3 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary The collision between AI's six-month doubling and the grid's decade-long timelines creates an impossible trinity: Scale, Speed, and Sustainability—choose two. By 2027, computational capacity will determine
Public Access (Free Member) | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 1 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary A hidden "compute tax" is emerging on household utility bills, as the public subsidizes the immense infrastructure costs of the AI revolution. While tech companies pay for
Executive Tier | Series: THE DESERT DIVIDEND (Part 6 of 6) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Between 2019 and 2024, the U.S. utility-scale solar industry experienced both unprecedented growth and massive project failures. Of 212 tracked projects exceeding 50MW in the Southwest desert regions, only 31
Professional Tier | Series: THE DESERT DIVIDEND (Part 5 of 6) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Cheap LCOE no longer guarantees survival in desert solar. The real test is endurance—through policy swings, grid bottlenecks, water scarcity, and the final sale. From two hundred project post-mortems, a
Professional Tier | Series: THE DESERT DIVIDEND (Part 4 of 6) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Water is not just an O&M line item—it is a covenant with the basin and its people. When developers model it appropriately, water can swing project IRRs by
Professional Tier | Series: THE DESERT DIVIDEND (Part 3 of 6) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Desert solar has evolved beyond cheap electricity. A new value stack—energy, reliability, ecology, and data—has emerged as a distinct asset class. Success no longer follows national models or geographic
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