<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # AI-ready gigawatts measure the maximum sustainable... > AI-ready gigawatts measure the maximum sustainable metabolic rate of a machine-intelligence industrial system. The measure is imperfect, but so were steel tonnage and shipyard capacity; imperfect measures can still reveal strategic reality. **Source:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War: AI, Demography, and the Civilizational Contest Between America and China]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “AI-ready gigawatts measure the maximum sustainable metabolic rate of a machine-intelligence industrial system. The measure is imperfect, but so were steel tonnage and shipyard capacity; imperfect measures can still reveal strategic reality.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-ai-ready-gigawatts-reveal-strategic-reality ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->