Well yeah, AI power consumption doesn't match the solar production curve.

I'll tell ya, it certainly doesn't match the nuclear fusion production curve!

That's interesting - I would generally like to use something like Cluade Code heavily during work hours and sparsely otherwise. Plus I assume most LLM-for-knowledge-work-at-industrial-scale demand will be similar as these datacentres are built out.

America has a few time zones to move the peaks around in a little bit. The world has plenty. Luckily AI power consumption doesn't have to be located where the consumer is.

I mean, it could.

As we build out solar, daytime power will become cheaper than nighttime power.

Some people will eventually find it economical to time-shift their consumption to daytime hours, including saving any non-interactive computation for those hours, and shutting down unneeded compute at night.

[citation needed]