AI

While demand for data centers has never been greater, driven by the boom in cloud computing and AI, access to electricity is emerging as the biggest constraint. That's largely because of aging power infrastructure, a slow build-out of new transmission lines and a variety of regulatory and permitting hurdles.

The goal is to make technology something that extends human potential rather than reducing it to nothingness - to create visible prosperity rather than just extracting it.

But policy moves a bit slower than AI and, if income is abruptly severed from labor, there is a genuine fear that the chasm of inequality may quickly solidify.