What Will Power the AI Revolution? | Mark Mills

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

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As artificial intelligence transforms the world, it’s triggering an unprecedented demand for energy. So where will that power come from—and what does it mean for America’s future? Mark Mills, executive director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, explains what history tells us about innovation and the unstoppable force of progress. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt,
0:08.3	and it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11 a.m.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:22.1	Here's a law of the universe.
0:24.7	Revolutionary inventions lead to massive new demands for energy.
0:29.2	Think about it. The steam engine led to a massive new demand for coal. The automobile
0:33.9	led to a massive new demand for gasoline. The commercial jetliner led to a massive new demand for jet fuel,
0:39.9	the light bulb or the air conditioner,
0:41.8	massive new electricity demands.
0:44.5	Here's a second law of the universe.
0:46.5	When new energy demands arise, supply inevitably follows.
0:51.3	Right now, we're in the early days of another revolutionary invention, artificial
0:55.1	intelligence. AI is a big deal, perhaps the biggest in history. That's why Google, meta,
1:01.5	and dozens of other tech giants are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to deploy it.
1:06.9	Skeptics wonder if it'll pay off. History, however, suggests that it will.
1:11.6	Like all earlier tech revolutions, AI not only creates new kinds of services, but dramatically
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