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Does USA have the electricity generation capacity to develop AI in the race with China?
You understand that China has a population much much higher so they have to produce more electricity right? When you have 4 times the population plus you manufacture crap for the world you have to produce stupid amounts of power.
The US doesnt have to produce near as much because of that.
You should look at something that would actually represent something. Per capita generation. These are terrible charts that serve no purpose besides propaganda and shock and awe. The US is deploying energy assets at incredible levels now and are no longer retiring all the only stuff just because.
Chinese have grown their electricity generation capacity at an exponential rate.
USA has not and cannot.
China have since the early 2000s adopted a massive and hugely successful strategy of energy efficiency which means they build the LEDs in the lighting in your office space.
They lead the world in nuclear power generation by a huge margin.
USA is the most inefficient wasteful user of energy on the planet...squandering resources and wrecking the climate in the process.
USA has failed to move its energy policy into the 20th century and remains hugely reliant upon out dated and dirty fossil fuels.
China are building a new hydro power plant that is three times bigger than the three gorges.
USA is forced to keep running old outdated and dangerous plants because its industrial capacity to build new electricity generation at competitive rates is so terribly degraded by decades of decadent neoliberal selling out of its industrial base.
Chinas rapid electricity power generation development and capacity highlights the advantages of the Chinese state capitalism model- a model that identifies and develops strategic capacity in areas where there is significant potential for economic growth.
Capital and resources are directed into these areas resulting significant results.
These 'terrible' charts show how far behind the US military industrial complex is in terms of major and significant factors such as the ability to generate electricity which is the fuel of the post industrial economy.
Chinese consumers and businesses pay less than half for electricity giving Chinese manufacturers a huge strategic advantage in global trade.
These terrible facts conflict with your faith in the merits of the USA and its military industrial based global hegemony. Tough. Time to face reality Uncle Sam.
Trump acknowledges Chinas success by himself increasingly adopting state capitalism.
The US has some of the most stringent environmental policies out there. China is rapidly poisoning their population with the growing number of cancer cities with heavy metal levels that the US can’t even touch. Our plants are not dangerous what are you even talking about? That’s some of the most absurd stuff you have said.
You know why China builds those dams? Because of failed environmental policy that ends up biting them in the end. It’s not even certain that that dam will be able to work like they think. Remember when China was blowing up dams because 3 gorges almost was toppled? You never see that in the US.
The chart is something no one would ever use 😂 why not throw up one that shows France leading the world in nuclear power generation because I mean they do their power mix is heavily heavily nuclear but that doesn’t mean they are good at building it or that it solves their energy needs.
You understand with the exception of Intel the companies the US took stakes in are companies where China has shown time and time again they don’t want free trade. Thus the US keeps the companies upright during their ramp ups.
Agree that the safety standards in China are not as stringent as in the USA.
This is a war for dominance and survival of two conflicting cultures and sacrifices will quite logically be made to win it.
Have you heard of 'eating bitter'?
Do you know what it means?
Or like many Americans-Westerners today, are you over weight if not obese on the rich diet and lifestyle enabled by global resource hegemony?
It is an existential conflict and contest between two conflicting cultures and belief systems.
China is racing to build its strength to avoid being subjugated by the USA.
The Chinese have not forgotten the lessons of The Opium Wars!
The USA farmed out a lot of the heavy industry that causes pollution and China took on most of that capacity that was outsourced by USA.
What USA did not factor was that China would not be content to be a US vassal like Japan, S.Korea, Canada, UK, EU or Australasia.
Chinas long heritage of being the dominant regional power continues today- their belief is that they deserve and must preserve their right to preeminence over other nations.
The USA holds a very similar self belief.
Since The Opium Wars that deep Chinese cultural self belief in being the naturally dominant culture was severely challenged, but today with their state capitalist model of mercantile power they are advancing it with convincing vigour and fundamental to achieving it will be winning freedom from US imperialist hegemony.
Ladies and gentlemen please place your bets...
They have a hell of a case in their favor. I mean profitable and expanding. Plus you throw in the AI stuff now and its well one of one!