Google president Ruth Porat may have just agreed with Elon Musk’s ‘big AI worry’ for which Big Tech is spending billions

Two of the most prominent voices in the technology world are now saying the same thing: America’s energy infrastructure is struggling to keep pace with the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI). Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Google parent company Alphabet, said at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston that the country may not be scaling its energy supplies fast enough to meet the demands of AI expansion.

“We are concerned that we are not full throttle on energy,” she said, adding that the country will need to “embrace every source of energy to meet the moment” – essentially echoing almost exactly the concern that Elon Musk had raised months earlier at the World Economic Forum in Davos.