<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The gigawatt has become a measure of latent war... > The gigawatt has become a measure of latent war capacity because it increasingly determines how much machine intelligence a civilization can physically instantiate. **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 ``` “The gigawatt has become a measure of latent war capacity because it increasingly determines how much machine intelligence a civilization can physically instantiate.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-gigawatt-become-measure-civilization-physically-instantiate ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->