Last week’s announcement of Stargate—a $500 billion collaboration between SoftBank, Oracle, and OpenAI—got me thinking deeply about something even more critical than the technology itself: the energy required for such massive artificial intelligence projects. This was top of mind even before this week’s announcement of DeepSeek, China’s alternative AI system, and I touched on it during the 1/24/2025 Post & Walters Ask Us Anything live podcast. When asked about my…