# Compute That Could Cure Disease Is Stranded Without Power by Dave Blundin > "The idea that there's the possibility of putting compute online that could cure a disease, and it won't be online for another three years because it's literally sitting in a warehouse without power—that's a terrible outcome." > **— Dave Blundin**, *Moonshots #309, recorded November 6, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Source dossier:** [[research/Midterms, Politics, AI, and Infrastructure Research - Moonshots|Midterms, Politics, AI, and Infrastructure Research — Moonshots]]. - **Direct publication or recording:** [recording, 00:29:02–00:29:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-ADiC7Khs&t=1742s). - **Editorial form:** The Reminder preserves the prepared contiguous quotation; punctuation and spoken disfluency treatment are recorded in the candidate map when applicable. - **Context and treatment:** Dave Blundin identifies idle AI compute as the object, unavailable electrical infrastructure as the cause, and delayed disease research as the human consequence; [recording, 00:29:02–00:29:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-ADiC7Khs&t=1742s). Direct contiguous passage; punctuation and contractions lightly regularized without changing the claim. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/The Politics of AI Infrastructure|The Politics of AI Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American Infrastructure|American Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Culture Collection]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Political Party That Inherits Super Intelligence in 2028|The Political Party That Inherits Super Intelligence in 2028]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Dave Blundin|Dave Blundin]] - [[wiki/AI Infrastructure|AI Infrastructure]] - [[wiki/Moonshots 309|Moonshots 309]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "The idea that there's the possibility of putting compute online that could cure a disease, and it won't be online for another three years because it's literally sitting in a warehouse without power—that's a terrible outcome." — Dave Blundin, Moonshots #309, recorded November 6, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dave-blundin-compute-that-could-cure-disease-is-stranded-without-power ```