October 8, 2025: The Gigawatt Jump

Great Scott!

In Back to the Future, Doc Brown says the DeLorean time machine requires 1.21 gigawatts of power to activate the flux capacitor.

For context, that’s the output of a large nuclear power plant running at full tilt, enough to light up about 1 million homes.

Those numbers seemed like science fiction until I read recently OpenAI and Nvidia are partnering to deploy at least TEN gigawatts for a data center.

Somebody tell Biff we’ve entered the future.

Big leaps — whether tech or personal — start with the spirit of “Let’s see what happens.” Be willing to operate at a scale that feels slightly absurd, both in goals and the energy you invest.

Change always begins with imagination.