{"id":277655,"date":"2026-06-21T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/ai-energy-life-how-power-will-decide-the-ai-race\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:30:08","slug":"ai-energy-life-how-power-will-decide-the-ai-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/ai-energy-life-how-power-will-decide-the-ai-race\/","title":{"rendered":"AI = Energy = Life: How Power Will Decide The AI Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digital-assets\/2026\/06\/21\/ai--energy--life-how-power-will-decide-the-ai-race\/\">AI = Energy = Life: How Power Will Decide The AI Race<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digital-assets\/2026\/06\/21\/ai--energy--life-how-power-will-decide-the-ai-race\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digital-assets\/2026\/06\/21\/ai&#8211;energy&#8211;life-how-power-will-decide-the-ai-race\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-21 08:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-line-clamp:2\" class=\"Ccg9Ib-7 _8XF2kHYM\">digital transformation. AI data. innovations and technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>getty<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s President, Emmanuel Macron, gets AI. He is saying, in essence, that unless Europe competes at a much higher level in AI, it will end up as a colony of either the U.S. or China.<\/p>\n<p>In the old world of bilateral trade, the doors were open for the U.S. to swamp Europe with Google, Microsoft, Netflix, and Disney. But now Trump has trashed much of that cooperation. Digital services risk being weaponized \u2013 or rather, that weaponization has suddenly come into focus.<\/p>\n<p>Any country that wants to be sovereign has to be able to resist software sanctions, restrictions, or weaponization. This is why there is no Google or Facebook in China, and why China has a government policy of phasing out Microsoft as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. pulled the rug out from under the world when it locked down Anthropic&#8217;s latest AI. That sent a hugely negative message.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, what is more important to a country in the long term: access to artificial intelligence or even something as vital as grain?<\/p>\n<p>Currently, one is an irreplaceable monopoly, while the other is not. One will be vital to the wealth of nations and their economies, while the other is fungible.<\/p>\n<p>There is no second place in intelligence, and there is no natural limit to demand.<\/p>\n<p>That is the key idea.<\/p>\n<p>AI will create artificially more powerful nations that will dominate the also-rans. Spears versus rifles is not a strategy for the weak, nor is begging to the likes of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Macron has made that plain, and you can be sure the rest of the EU understands it.<\/p>\n<p>So here is the rub.<\/p>\n<p>People are constrained by software.<\/p>\n<p>Software is constrained by hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Hardware is constrained by energy.<\/p>\n<p>This knocks Europe out in a single shot.<\/p>\n<p>Europe has 50% of the electricity for 150% of the people, compared with the U.S. It can&#8217;t compete in AI because it doesn&#8217;t have the power. The only player in the EU with adequate power \u2013 and with the ability to expand it quickly \u2013 is France. And what do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digital-assets\/2026\/06\/21\/ai--energy--life-how-power-will-decide-the-ai-race\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI = Energy = Life: How Power Will Decide The AI Race https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digital-assets\/2026\/06\/21\/ai&#8211;energy&#8211;life-how-power-will-decide-the-ai-race\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a1450f22d5bc85d81fa79db\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-277655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277657,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277655\/revisions\/277657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}