Can AI solve the energy problem it created?

It costs about $5 and takes roughly 15 minutes to train an AI model that can help determine where America’s next data centers should be built. That’s not a rounding error. The world is debating hundred-billion-dollar AI investments and warning that we need fleets of new power plants, yet one of the most important pieces of the puzzle costs about as much as a pack of gum. Before we build another plant, we should figure out how much of the grid we’re already leaving on the tab...