India, Aug. 19 -- Recently, I was in conversation with some fellows from Silicon Valley and Shenzhen - two of the world's tech powerhouses - swapping stories about our latest AI projects. One of them pulled up a live feed from their lab: A warehouse-sized hall lined with racks of AI servers, each glowing and humming like a beehive in overdrive. In the corner, an engineer pointed to a monitor showing the facility's power draw - more than an entire city block. For a moment, the conversation went quiet. We all knew what that number meant.In a world already straining its energy grids, AI's appetite is not just impressive - it is a warning. That night, I could not shake a question: If this is just the beginning, how will we keep the lights on ...