{"id":218717,"date":"2025-07-25T08:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-warns-of-ai-superintelligence-outpacing-earths-energy-limits-chips-will-outrun-power-needs"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:02:21","slug":"former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-warns-of-ai-superintelligence-outpacing-earths-energy-limits-chips-will-outrun-power-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-warns-of-ai-superintelligence-outpacing-earths-energy-limits-chips-will-outrun-power-needs","title":{"rendered":"Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns of AI superintelligence outpacing Earth\u2019s energy limits: \u2018Chips will outrun power needs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qaPHK1fJL5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AIs future may be limited not by chips, but by the power to run them. Eric Schmidt highlights how data centers fueling AI models are consuming record amounts of water and electricity, risking an environmental crisis. As big tech races toward superintelligence, the looming question is whether our energy grid can handle the load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIs future may be limited not by chips, but by the power to run them. Eric Schmidt highlights how data centers fueling AI models are consuming record amounts of water and electricity, risking an environmental crisis. As big tech races toward superintelligence, the looming question is whether our energy grid can handle the load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}